Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) As soon as practicable after the polling day for the referendum, the returning officer for each electoral district must ensure that the commission's staff follow the procedures stated in this section.
(2) Firstly, the staff must--
(a) open all ballot boxes for the electoral district that have not previously been opened; and
(b) identify all declaration envelopes and keep those for different electoral districts in separate parcels; and
(c) seal up each parcel of envelopes for an electoral district other than the returning officer's electoral district, write on each a description of its contents, sign the description and permit any scrutineers who wish to do so to countersign the description; and
(d) send the parcels to the returning officer for the appropriate electoral district.
(3) Secondly, the staff must--
(a) open all sealed parcels of ballot papers sent to the returning officer under section 38; and
(b) arrange all yes votes, no votes and informal ballot papers not in declaration envelopes; and
(c) count the yes votes, no votes and informal ballot papers.
(4) Thirdly, the staff must--
(a) open all ballot boxes on hand in which ballot papers from declaration envelopes have been placed under section 36(3); and
(b) arrange all yes votes, no votes and informal ballot papers; and
(c) count the yes votes, no votes and informal ballot papers; and
(d) reapply paragraphs (a) to (c) as more ballot papers are placed in ballot boxes under section 36(3), until there are no more ballot papers required to be placed in ballot boxes under that section.