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Amendment of First Schedule to the Principal Act.
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3.—The First Schedule to the Principal Act is hereby amended in the following respects—
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(a) by the insertion after Rule 22 of the following Rule—
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“22A. The local returning officer for a constituency—
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(a) shall appoint, as the place at which he will open the ballot boxes,—
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(i) in case the constituency consists wholly or partly of a county borough, some place within the county borough, or
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(ii) in any other case, some place within the constituency, but may, with the consent of the Minister (which shall not be given unless the Minister is satisfied that there is not, within the constituency, any place available and suitable for the counting of the votes), appoint some place outside, but convenient to, the constituency,
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(b) shall open the ballot boxes at the place so appointed,
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(c) shall, at least forty-eight hours before the hour of 9 o'clock a.m. on the day next after the close of the poll, give to every agent, appointed under Rule 24 of this Schedule and of whose appointment he receives notice in accordance with Rule 25 of this Schedule, notice in writing of the place so appointed”;
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(b) by the substitution of the following Rule for Rule 23—
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“23. At the hour of 9 o'clock a.m. on the day next after the close of the poll in each constituency and at the place appointed by him under Rule 22A of this Schedule, the local returning officer for that constituency shall begin to open the ballot boxes used at the poll in that constituency, take out the ballot papers therein, count and record the numbers thereof, and then mix together the whole of the ballot papers contained in the said ballot boxes.”;
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(c) by the substitution of the following Rule for Rule 24—
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“24. Every local agent of a candidate may appoint agents to attend on behalf of such candidate the opening of the ballot boxes in his constituency by the local returning officer and the proceedings consequent on such opening.”;
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(d) by the deletion, in Rules 27 and 39, of the word “seven” and the substitution therefor of the word “eleven”.
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