(1) The Returning Officer shall have before him the list of the members prepared under Rule 6.
(2) Immediately before the ballot paper is delivered to a member, a mark shall be place against his name in the list.
(3) The member shall sign his name in the list in token of receipt of ballot paper. .
_(4) Before delivery of ballot paper to a member, the Returning Officer shall satisfy hxmgelf about the identity of the member and for that purpose he may take the assistance of such persons as he may think fit.
l ) If tfhe Returning Officer is not salisfied about the identity of any person, he may refuse to c‘lehve{ a ballot paper to him after recording a brief note about the circumstances in which the refusal was made.
(6) As soor: as the issue of ballot pa is fini - ; i ; papers is finished, the Returning Officer other authority d p‘fj-s & not. be op ened. except upon the order of a-Court o 2 suppli t;c; lnfi in}lrldlspute relating to such elections.
. ot fresh ballot paper in certain circu, ember who has inad ith hi ; mstances.—(1) A m vertently dealt with his ballot paper in such manner that it cannot 108 U Up, KSHETTRA PANGHAYAT & ZILA PANCHAYAT ADHINIVAM, 1961 . be convenienltly used as a ballot paper may, on returning it to (he R eturnj cer and on salisfying him of the inadvertence, obtain another ba]lgrlng;gom* place of the ballol paper so returned, and the latter shall, together wig, “Spcr in terfoil, be marked as "Returned and Cancelled” by the Returning Officey, =~ OUN-
(2) Any ballot paper so cancelled shall be kept in an envelope got apart the purpose. or