(1) If, owing to any circumstance beyond control, the act of counting of votes has to be adjourned in the meantime, the Election Officer may postpone the counting of votes prior to the completion of the counting of votes.
(2) Where it is required to postpone the counting of votes pursuant to Sub-section (1), the Election Officer shall prepare an inventory of the ballot papers already counted, documents relating to the counting of votes, ballot papers remain to be counted, and the ballot boxes of which ballot papers have not been counted, and keep them in different envelops and seal them with his or her own seal. The candidates or their agents may, if they so wish, also put their own seal on the envelopes.
(3) A notice of postponement of counting of votes and of resumption of counting of votes shall have to be published a that place immediately.