Clause 4

Section 31 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsection:“(3) Every presiding officer of a polling station shall despatch each such packet and the ballot box or boxes in safe custody to the Returning Officer at the counting place where the votes cast at the polling station are to be counted in accordance with the provisions of this Act, except that where the Returning Officer has in any direction made under section 31A(1) specified a polling station to be a counting place, the presiding officer of the polling station shall keep at that station every such packet and ballot box in safe custody pending counting of the votes thereat.”.