Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 51

51. (1) After the close of the poll, the Polling Officer shall, in the presence of such of the contesting candidates and their polling agents as may be present, open the ballot boxes.

(2)The Polling Officer shall

(a)count the ballot papers taken out of the ballot boxes and record their number in a statement;

(b)scrutinize the ballot papers taken out of the ballot boxes;

(c)separate the ballot papers which he deems valid from those which he rejects under sub-rule (3) endorsing on each ballot paper so rejected the word "rejected" and the grounds of rejection and record their number in a statement;

(d)put the valid and invalid ballot papers in separate packets and put his seal on them;

(e)obtain on each statement and packet the signature of such of the contesting candidates or their agents as may desire to sign it; and

(f)prepare a ballot paper account showing

(i)the number of ballot papers entrusted to him;