19. Section 48 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:
| (a) by the insertion, immediately after sub-section (3) of that section, of the following new subsection :
| | "(3A) Immediately after the close of the poll and before the returning officer proceeds to count the votes, he, or a person authorized by him shall, in the presence of such of the candidates and their counting agents as attend,
| | | (a) show such candidates and their counting agents the statement referred to in sub-section (4) of section 47 and permit them to take copies thereof; and |
| (b) open the postal voters' ballot box, if any, and dispose of the contents thereof in accordance with the regulations contained in the Fifth Schedule to this Order. "; and |
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| (b) in sub-section (4) of that section by the omission of paragraph (a) of that sub-section. |
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