Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 97

97. Section 122 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following sub-section:

''(2) If any voter voting in a manner that will involve his ballot-paper being
placed in an envelope satisfies the officer who issued him with the
ballot-paper that, before the ballot-paper was placed in the relevant
envelope, he spoilt the ballot-paper by mistake or accident, he may, on giving
up the spoilt ballot-paper to the officer, receive a new ballot-paper from the
officer, who shall there and then cancel the spoilt ballot-paper and deal with
it as prescribed.''.