ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (ii) National Assembly elections, polling-station returns gathered from every polling station within a ward shall be transmitted to the appropriate ward centre for collation at that centre, the results of which collation shall be embodied in a return (“National Assembly election ward return”) distinctly indicating the results obtained in each polling station relating to those elections: Provided that duplicate copies of the polling-station returns gathered from every polling station within a ward for the purposes of subparagraph (i) and (ii) shall also be transmitted through the appropriate ward centre directly to the National Command Centre; and (c) after collation of the results of— (i) presidential election at each ward centre, presidential election ward returns gathered from every ward centre within a constituency shall be transmitted to the appropriate presidential constituency centre for collation at that centre, the results of which collation shall be embodied in a return (“presidential constituency return”) distinctly indicating the results obtained in each ward within that constituency relating to that election; (ii) National Assembly elections at each ward centre, National Assembly election ward returns gathered from every ward centre within a constituency shall be transmitted to the appropriate National Assembly constituency centre for collation at that centre, the results of which collation shall be embodied in a return (“National Assembly constituency return”) distinctly indicating the results obtained in each ward within that constituency relating to those elections; and (d) after collation of the results of the presidential election at each presidential constituency centre, presidential constituency returns gathered from every presidential constituency centre shall be transmitted to the provincial command centre for collation at that centre, the results of which collation shall be embodied in a return (“provincial return for the presidential election”) distinctly indicating the results obtained in each constituency relating to those elections; Provided that duplicate copies of the presidential constituency returns gathered from every presidential constituency centre shall also be transmitted directly from the provincial command centre concerned to the National Command Centre; and (e) after collation of the results of the National Assembly elections at each National Assembly constituency centre, National Assembly constituency returns gathered from every National Assembly constituency centre shall be transmitted to the provincial command centre, where— (i) the result of the National Assembly election in the province in question will be embodied in a return (“provincial return for the National Assembly elections”) distinctly indicating the results obtained in each constituency relating to those elections; and (ii) the results of the election for the party-list candidates for the province in question will be determined in accordance with section 45I on the basis of the provincial return for the National Assembly elections, and be embodied in return (“provincial return for elections of party-list candidates”) distinctly indicating the results obtained for the Senate, National Assembly and provincial council party-list seats; and 47

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