Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 24 of 1990 - SECT 53

53. Before section 203 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted
in Part XVI: Undertaking by officers and scrutineers

"202A. (1) An officer to whom this subsection applies shall not begin the
performance of his or her duties in relation to an election unless the officer
has signed an undertaking in the approved form relating to that election.

"(2) Subsection (1) applies to the following officers:

   (a)  a Divisional Returning Officer;

   (b)  an Assistant Returning Officer;

   (c)  an Assistant Divisional Returning Officer;

   (d)  a presiding officer;

   (e)  a deputy presiding officer;

   (f)  an assistant presiding officer;

   (g)  a substitute presiding officer;

   (h)  an Antarctic Returning Officer;

   (j)  an Assistant Antarctic Returning Officer;

   (k)  an electoral visitor;

   (m)  a mobile polling team leader;

   (n)  a mobile polling team member;

   (o)  a pre-poll voting officer.

"(3) A scrutineer shall not begin the performance of his or her duties unless
the scrutineer has signed an undertaking in the approved form.

"(4) A person employed by the Electoral Commission to perform duties in
connection with the conduct of an election or a referendum held on the same
day as an election, shall not begin the performance of his or her duties
unless the person has signed an undertaking in the approved form.

"(5) The failure of a person to sign an undertaking is not a ground for
setting aside the result of an election or referendum.".