Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ELECTORAL) ACT 1988 No. 107 of 1988 - SECT 20

20. (1) The provisional distribution of seats among parties and independent
candidates shall be determined in accordance with section 23.

(2) If an independent candidate receives a seat under subsection (1), the
candidate is provisionally elected.

(3) If the number of seats received by a party under subsection (1) equals the
number of candidates of the party, the candidate is, or candidates are,
provisionally elected.

(4) If the number of candidates of a party exceeds the number of seats
received by the party under subsection (1), the candidate or candidates of the
party is or are provisionally elected to those seats by distributing the votes
among the candidates as provided by the Electoral Act.