BY E. L. PIESSE, B.SC, LL.B. 71 



1913. 



(b) The votes obtained by such excluded candidate as first 

 choices shall first be transferred, the transfer value of each 

 vote in this case being 1. 



(c) The other votes of such excluded candidate shall 

 then be dealt with in the order of the transfers in which, and 

 at the transfer value at which, he obtained them. 



(f/) Each of the transfers which takes place under the two 

 previous clauses of this rule shall be deemed for all purposes 

 to be a separate transfer. 



9. — (a) Where the number of votes obtained by a candi- 

 date is raised up to or above the quota by any such trans- 

 fer as aforesaid, he shall thereupon be declared elected. And 

 in such case, notwithstanding the fact that he may have 

 reached the quota, such transfer shall be completed, and all 

 the votes to which he is entitled therefrom shall be transferred 

 to him, but no other votes shall be transferred to him. 



(b) Where the number of votes obtained by a candidate is 

 raised up to, but not above, the quota by any such transfer 

 as aforesaid, the whole of the voting-papers on which such 

 votes are recorded shall be set aside as finally dealt with. 



(c) Where the number of votes obtained by a candidate is 

 raised above the quota by any such transfer as aforesaid, 

 his surplus shall be transferred to the candidates next in the 

 order of the voters' respective preferences in the same man- 

 ner as is directed in Rule 7. Clause (c) : Provided that such 

 surplus shall not be dealt with until all the votes of the 

 excluded candidate have been transferred. 



(d) Where any surplus exi.sts it shall be dealt with before 

 any other candidate is excluded. 



10. The same process of excluding the candidate lowest on 

 the poll and transferring to other candidates his votes shall 

 be repeated until all the candidates, except the number 

 required to be elected, have been excluded, and the unex- 

 cluded candidates, who have not already been so declared, 

 shall then be declared elected. 



11. Where at any time it becomes necessary to exclude a 

 candidate, and two or more candidates have the same num- 

 ber of votes and are lowest on the poll, then whichever of such 

 candidates was lowest on the poll at the last count or 

 transfer at which thev had an unequal number of votes shall 

 be first excluded, and if such candidates have had an 

 equal number of votes at all preceding counts or transfers the 

 returning officer shall decide which candidate shall be first 

 excluded . 



12. In determining what candidate is next in the order 

 of the voter's preference, any candidates Avho have been 

 declared elected or who have been excluded shall not be con- 

 sidered, and the order of the voter's preference shall be deter- 

 mined as if the names of such candidates had not been on the 

 voting-paper. 



13. Where on any transfer it is found that on any voting- 

 paper there is no "candidate opposite whose name a number 

 is placed, other than those who have been already either 

 declared elected or excluded, such voting-paper shall be set 

 aside as exhausted. 



