Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 394

  (1)   On the day appointed as polling day for an election of the Senate or a general election of the House of Representatives, no election, referendum or vote of the electors of a State or Territory or part of a State or Territory may, without the authority of the Governor - General, be held or taken under a law of the State or Territory.

  (2)   On the day appointed as polling day for an election of the Senate or a general election of the House of Representatives, no election, referendum or vote of the electors of Norfolk Island may, without the authority of the Governor - General, be held or taken under a law in force in Norfolk Island.

  (3)   In subsection   (1):

"Territory" means:

  (a)   the Australian Capital Territory, not including Norfolk Island; or

  (b)   the Northern Territory.