Legislative Council (Elections).


Questions
which may be
put to an
elector.


Mode of taking
ballot in special
cases.


 (6) If at the hour of closing of the poll there are any electors
 inside the. polling station who are qualified to vote and have not
 been- able to do so since their arrival at .the polling station, the
 poll shall be kept open a sufficient'time to enable them to' vote
 but no one not actually present within the polling station at the
 hour of closing shall be allowed to vote.

 43. -(1) The presiding officer may, and shall, if requested by
 a candidate or his agent, put to the elector the following
 questions :-
 (a) .Are you the same person whose name appears as A.B. on
 the list of electors now in force for this polling-station?
 (b) Have you already voted at this election either here or
 elsewhere?
 (2) If'any person refuses to answer any question put to him
 as in this section provided, the presiding officer shall refuse-to
 give him a ballot paper.
 -(3) If any person makes a false aiiswer to any such-question
 he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for six
 months.

 44. (1) Subject to all other provisions of this Ordinance as
 to proof of qualification as an.elector and as to the administration
 of oaths, if a person representing himself to be a particular
 elector applies for a ballot paper after another person, has'voted
 as such person, he shall be entitled to 'receive a ballot paper and
 to vote after taking the oath ,of identity, in the form set out as
 Form No. 34 in the First Schedule, and otherwise establishing his
 identity to the satisfaction of the presiding officer.
 (2) In such case, the presiding officer shall put on the ballot
paper his initials together with a number corresponding to the
consecutive number on the official list of electors allotted to the
voter and entered in the poll book opposite the name of such
voter, and the poll clerk shall ent6r in the poll book-
 (a)- the name of such voter;
 Cb) a note of his having voted on, a. second ballot paper
issued under the same name; -
 (c)'the fact of the oath of identity having been required and
taken, and the fact of any other oaths being so required or taken;
and
 (d) 'any o sections made on behalf of any and of which of
the candidates.
 (3) The presiding officer, on the application of any elector
who is incapacitated, from any physical cause other than
blindness, from voting in the manner prescribed. by this
Ordinance, shall require the elector making* such application to


. 1951,