Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 55

55. (1) If at the end of any count the value of the ballot papers credited to a candidate is greater than the quota, the surplus shall be transferred in accordance with provisions of this rule to the continuing candidates, according to the preferences indicated on the ballot papers of that candidate.

(2)If more than one candidates have a surplus, the largest surplus shall be dealt with first and the other in order of magnitude: Provided that every surplus arising on the first count shall be dealt with before arising on the second count and so on.

(3)If more than one candidates have an equal surplus arising within the same count, the surplus of the candidate credited with the greatest value at the earliest count at which the value credited to these candidates were unequal, shall be dealt with first and where the value credited to such candidate were equal at all counts, the Returning Officer shall determine by lot which surplus will be dealt with first.

(4)If the surplus of any candidate to be transferred arises from original votes only, the Returning Officer shall examine all the papers in the parcel of that elected candidate, sort out unexhausted papers into sub-parcels according to the next available preference recorded therein and shall make a separate sub-parcel of the exhausted ballot papers.