Supplementary provisions if adding adjourned and postponed
28.—(1) This regulation applies if the adding of votes at the principal counting place is adjourned and postponed under regulation 26.
(2) The Returning Officer must announce the adjournment and postponement of the adding of votes to persons present at the principal counting place.
(3) The adding of votes at the principal counting place must stop immediately.
(4) The Returning Officer must secure the adding material at the principal counting place in the presence of the candidates and their principal election agents who are in attendance by —
(a)
making up the adding material into separate packets; and
(b)
sealing each packet with —
(i)
the seal of the Returning Officer; and
(ii)
the seals of the candidates and their principal election agents who wish to affix their seals.
(5) The Returning Officer must hold the secured adding material in safe custody (whether at the principal counting place or any other location) while the adding stands adjourned.
(6) Immediately before the adding of votes resumes, the Returning Officer must —
(a)
if the secured adding material is not held at the location for the resumed adding of votes, deliver the secured adding material to that location; and
(b)
in the presence of the candidates and their principal election agents who are in attendance, retrieve the adding material from the means by which it is secured.
(7) The resumed adding of votes must be conducted as nearly as possible in accordance with the Act.