Transfer certificates, issue of and record of
80(1)At any time between the close of nominations and the opening of the poll on polling day, upon the production to the returning officer or the election clerk of a writing signed by a candidate who has been officially nominated or by the agent of a recognized party whereby a person whose name appears upon the official list of electors for any polling station in the electoral district is appointed to act as a scrutineer at another polling station in the same electoral district, the returning officer or the election clerk shall issue to the scrutineer a transfer certificate in the form prescribed by regulation entitling the scrutineer to vote at the latter polling station.
80(2)Every scrutineer who has obtained a transfer certificate from the returning officer or the election clerk, shall, before being allowed to vote by virtue of such certificate, take and subscribe an oath in the form prescribed by regulation before the deputy returning officer.
80(3)A candidate whose name appears upon the list of electors for any polling station is entitled at his request to receive a transfer certificate entitling him to vote in a polling station in the same electoral district other than that on the list of electors for which his name appears.
80(4)The returning officer or election clerk may issue a transfer certificate to a person whose name appears on the official list of electors for any polling station and who has been appointed to act as deputy returning officer or poll clerk for any polling station in the same electoral district other than that on the list for which such person’s name appears.
80(5)No transfer certificate issued to an election officer or scrutineer under this section entitles the election officer or scrutineer to vote pursuant thereto unless, on polling day, he is actually engaged in the performance of the duty specified in the said certificate at the polling station therein mentioned.
80(5.1)If an elector’s name appears on the official list of electors for a polling station that the elector is unable to access because of physical incapacity, the returning officer or election clerk may issue a transfer certificate to the elector entitling the elector to vote at another polling station that the elector is able to access in the same electoral district.
80(6)The returning officer or election clerk by whom any transfer certificate is issued shall complete the certificate, dating and signing it, and shall consecutively number each certificate in the order of its issue and keep a record thereof, and no such certificate shall be issued in blank.
80(7)The returning officer or election clerk shall mark opposite the name of the elector to whom a transfer certificate is issued, on the official list of electors to be furnished to the deputy returning officer, the words “transfer certificate”, or, in the event of such list having been already delivered to the deputy returning officer, deliver to such officer a duplicate of such certificate, whereupon the deputy returning officer shall forthwith mark opposite the name of such elector on such list the words “transfer certificate”.
80(8)Any person applying to vote under this section shall, before being allowed to vote, surrender his transfer certificate to the deputy returning officer.
80(9)In every case of a vote polled under the authority of this section, the poll clerk shall enter in the poll book opposite the voter’s name, in the column for remarks, a memorandum stating that the voter voted under a transfer certificate, giving the number of such certificate, and stating the particular office or position, if applicable, that the voter is filling at the polling station.
80(10)No person who has obtained a transfer certificate is entitled to vote at the polling station on the list of electors for which his name appears, except upon his producing the certificate and delivering it up to the deputy returning officer at such polling station.
1967, c.9, s.80; 1974, c.92(Supp.), s.10; 1991, c.48, s.12