Section 220: Questions to voters – Tendered ballot paper—The duty cast upon the

220. Questions to voters – Tendered ballot paper—The duty cast upon the presiding officer by section 34 of the Legislative Council Ordinance, 1948 (now the Representation of the People Act), as to requiring an elector who applies for a tendered ballot paper to answer the statutory questions prescribed by section 30 of the Ordinance is not an absolute but a discretionary one. It is not a condition precedent to the issue to an elector of a tendered ballot paper that he should first be asked to answer those statutory questions; but an elector may be refused a tendered ballot paper if, when asked those questions by a presiding officer in the exercise of his discretion, he refuses to answer them, or does not answer them satisfactorily. Rivalland v Chadien (1954).