No. Tof 1954. Voryin Islands Constitution 49
and Llections,

shall be sealed by the returning officer and by such
agents or witnesses present as may desire to seal
them or to sign their names thereon in addition or
instead.

(7) The candidate who on the completion of
the count is found to have the largest number of

votes shall then be declared by the returning officer |

to be elected as the member for the electoral district.

(8S) Whenever there is an equality of votes
between two or more candidates and the addition
of a vote would entitle one of such candidates to
be declared elected, then—

(a) the returning officer, if he is a regis-
tered voter of the electoral district for which
the election is held, may give such additional
vote, but the returning officer shall not in any
other case be entitled to vote at an election for
which he is the returning officer;

(D) if the returning officer is not a regis-
tered voter as aforesaid, or if being such regis-
tered voter he declines to vote, he ‘sliall make a
special return of the result of ‘the election and
the Council shall have the right by resolution
to choose one of such candidates to be the
member for that electoral district.

76. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsec-
tion (2) of this section, during the hours when the
poll is open upon polling day, no person shall
ussemble or congregate within one hundred yards
of any building in which is situate any polling
station.

(2) This section shall not apply—

(a) to any voters who are waiting to poll
their votes at such polling station and who
obey any instructions which may be given by
the presiding officer or poll clerk or any police
officer for the purpose of forming a queue with
other voters also waiting; or

(6) to any person who may under the
provisions of this Ordinance lawfully enter or
remain in such polling station,

VIRGIN
JSLANDS,

Declaration
of the poll.

Equality
of votes.

Maintenance
of order at
polling
station.