(1) Once the Electoral Board has completed its duties, the Electoral Officer packs into separate parcels
1. the ballot papers, sorted and grouped by the individual constituency candidates, the ballot papers on which only the second vote has been cast, and the unmarked ballot papers,
2. (repealed)
3. the polling cards collected,
where these items have not been attached to the election record, seals the individual parcels, labels them with a description of their contents and hands them over to the municipal authority. Until they are handed over to the municipal authority, the Electoral Officer must ensure that the documents listed in items 1 to 3 are not accessible to unauthorised persons.
(2) The municipal authority is required to store the parcels until authorisation is issued for the destruction of the electoral documents (section 90). It must ensure that the parcels are not accessible to unauthorised persons.
(3) The Electoral Officer returns to the municipal authority the documents and material made available to him or her under section 49 as well as the surrendered voter's notifications.
(4) The municipal authority must submit the documents listed in subsection (1) to the Constituency Returning Officer upon demand. If only parts of a parcel have been requested, the municipal authority breaks open the parcel in the presence of two witnesses, removes the requested part and reseals the parcel. A record of the process must be drawn up and signed by all participants.