Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Sending ballot boxes and envelopes to returning officer

290 An election officer who is assigned to a polling station or an advance polling station shall, without delay after sealing the ballot box, send to the returning officer the box, with the envelope that contains the original statement of the vote, the envelope that contains the registration certificates, the envelope referred to in section 288.01 and, in the case of an election officer who is assigned to a polling station, the envelope referred to in section 288.1.