Australian Capital Territory
Electoral (Computer Program) Approval 2016 (No 2)*
Notifiable instrument NI2016–554
made under the
Electoral Act 1992, s118A(1) (Approval of computer program for electronic voting and vote counting)
1	Name of instrument
	This instrument is the Electoral (Computer Program) Approval 2016 (No 2).
2	Commencement 
	This instrument commences on the day after it is notified.
3	Approval
	I approve the Ballot Paper Scanning System to perform steps in the scrutiny of votes in an election.
The Ballot Paper Scanning System means the computer program used by the ACT Electoral Commission for scanning and imaging paper ballot papers, and verifying the preferences on those ballot papers.  A certified copy of the program is held on CD-ROM (entitled ACT Electoral Commission Ballot Scanning System v1.2) certified by the Electoral Commissioner and kept at the office of the ACT Electoral Commissioner, 197 London Circuit, Canberra City, ACT.

Phillip Green
Electoral Commissioner

4 October 2016