19. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 53, and shall have effect as section 53A, of the principal enactment:-
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| | (1) No ballot paper shall be delivered to any voter at any local election-
| | | (a) if he refuses to allow the presiding officer or a person acting under his authority to make the appropriate inspection ; or |
| (b) if, having allowed such inspection, it discloses that such voter has already been marked with the appropriate mark ; or |
| (c) if, having allowed such inspection, it discloses that such voter has not already been marked with the appropriate mark, but such voter refuses to allow such officer or person to mark such voter with the appropriate mark, |
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| | (2) The presiding officer of a polling station shall enter on a list, substantially in the form set out in the Seventh Schedule to this Ordinance, the following particulars relating to each voter to whom a ballot paper was not delivered at such station under subsection (1) :-
| | | (a) the number of such voter in the electoral list of the ward of the electoral area in which the election is held ; |
| (b) the name and address of such voter as it appears in such list; and |
| (c) the ground on which a ballot paper was not delivered to such voter. |
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| | (3) In this section,-
| | | (a) the expression "appropriate mark" means a mark made with indelible ink ; |
| (b) the term " appropriate", with reference to any context connected with or relating to the inspection or marking of a voter, means-
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| | (4) Every person who-
| | | (a) without due authority places an appropriate mark on any voter at any election under this Ordinance or what purports to be or is capable of being mistaken for that mark; or |
| (b) fraudulently defaces any appropriate mark placed on any voter at such election without due authority, |
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