Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Short title.  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Interpretation  
   4.      Electors entitled to vote at a referendum  
   5.      Australian Electoral Officer for a Territory  
   6.      Assistant Returning Officers and Assistant Divisional Returning Officers  
   7.      Writ for a referendum  
   8.      Form of writ  
   9.      Day for close of Rolls and voting day  
   10.     Extension of time, &c.  
   11.     Distribution to electors of arguments for and against proposed law  
   12.     Governor-General to deal with writ  
   13.     Action by Electoral Commissioner  
   14.     Action by Electoral Officers  
   15.     Voting on same day throughout Australia  
   16.     Polling places  
   17.     Arrangements for voting  
   18.     Substitute for presiding officer  
   19.     Ballot-boxes  
   20.     Separate voting compartments  
   21.     No licensed premises to be used  
   22.     Certified list of voters  
   23.     Election and referendum on the same day  
   24.     Manner of voting  
   25.     Forms of ballot-paper  
   26.     Ballot-papers to be initialled  
   27.     Appointment of scrutineers  
   28.     Provisions relating to scrutineers  
   29.     Voting at a referendum  
   30.     Questions to be put to voter  
   31.     Questions to be put to voter when election and referendum on the same day  
   32.     Errors not to forfeit vote  
   33.     Right of elector to receive ballot-paper  
   34.     List of voters to be marked when ballot-paper issued  
   35.     Vote to be marked in private  
   36.     Assistance to certain voters  
   37.     Vote of person whose name is not on Roll, &c.  
   38.     Voter claiming to vote whose name on Roll has been marked  
   39.     Vote of person whose address is not shown on Roll  
   40.     Election and referendum on the same day  
   41.     Spoilt ballot-papers  
   42.     Adjournment of voting  
   43.     Adjournment at both referendum and election  
   44.     Adjourned voting  
   45.     Compulsory voting  
   46.     Where electors may vote, and absent voting  
   47.     Interpretation  
   48.     Mobile booths-hospitals that are polling places  
   49.     Mobile booths-certain other hospitals  
   50.     Provisions related to sections 48 and 49  
   51.     Mobile booths-remote Subdivisions  
   52.     Election and referendum on same day  
   53.     Interpretation  
   54.     Postal voting officers and appointed places  
   55.     Voting by post  
   56.     Written application for postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper  
   57.     Oral application for postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper  
   58.     Dispatch of electoral materials to registered postal voters  
   59.     Election and referendum on the same day  
   60.     Duty of witnesses  
   61.     Issue of certificate and ballot-paper  
   62.     Inspection of applications  
   63.     Numbering of applications and certificates  
   64.     Divisional Returning Officer to note issue of postal vote certificates and postal ballot-papers  
   65.     Person claiming to vote whose name is noted on certified list, &c.  
   66.     Directions for postal voting  
   67.     Duty of authorized witnesses  
   68.     Unlawful opening of envelope containing postal ballot-paper  
   69.     Penalty for failure to post or deliver postal ballot-paper  
   70.     Penalty for inducing elector to hand over postal ballot-paper  
   71.     Duty of persons present when an elector votes by post  
   72.     Preliminary scrutiny of postal ballot-papers  
   73.     Correction of errors  
   74.     Interpretation  
   75.     Application of Part III to voting in Antarctica  
   76.     Arrangements for voting in Antarctica  
   77.     Ballot-papers to be initialled  
   78.     The voting at a referendum in Antarctica  
   79.     Entitlement of Antarctic electors to vote at referendum  
   80.     Questions to be put to voter  
   81.     Right of Antarctic elector to receive ballot-paper  
   82.     List of Antarctic electors to be marked  
   83.     Application of sections 35 and 36  
   84.     Proceedings by Antarctic Returning Officer upon close of voting  
   85.     Result of the polling in Antarctica  
   86.     Preservation of ballot-papers, &c.  
   87.     Application of Part  
   88.     Election and referendum on same day  
   89.     Ascertainment of result of referendum  
   90.     Conduct of scrutiny  
   91.     Action at scrutiny  
   92.     Action on objection to ballot-papers  
   93.     Informal ballot-papers  
   94.     Return of result of submission by Divisional Returning Officers  
   95.     Recount  
   96.     Reservation of disputed ballot-papers  
   97.     Statement by Australian Electoral Officers  
   98.     Return of the writ  
   99.     Copies of statement to Governors of the States, &c.  
   100.    Disputing validity of submission or return  
   101.    Requisites of petition  
   102.    Petition by Electoral Commission  
   103.    Jurisdiction and powers of High Court  
   104.    Inquiries by High Court  
   105.    Notice of petition  
   106.    Joinder of parties  
   107.    Procedure on petition  
   108.    Immaterial errors not to invalidate referendum  
   109.    Evidence that person not permitted to vote  
   110.    Interpretation  
   111.    Returns by broadcasters  
   112.    Returns by publishers  
   113.    Returns by printers  
   114.    Combined returns  
   115.    Public may obtain copies of returns  
   116.    Officers and scrutineers to observe secrecy  
   117.    Officers not to contravene Act, &c.  
   118.    Officers not to influence vote  
   119.    Bribery  
   120.    Interference with political liberty  
   121.    Printing and publication of electoral advertisements, notices, &c.  
   122.    Misleading or deceptive publications, &c.  
   123.    False statements in relation to Rolls  
   124.    Headings to advertisements  
   125.    Authors of reports, &c., to be identified  
   126.    Cards in polling booth  
   127.    Signature to referendum paper  
   128.    Witnessing referendum papers  
   129.    Marks on ballot-papers  
   130.    Other offences relating to ballot-papers, &c.  
   131.    Prohibition of certain behaviour near polling booth  
   132.    Badges or emblems in polling booths  
   133.    Employers to allow employees leave of absence to vote  
   134.    Misconduct at public meeting  
   135.    Misconduct, &c., in polling booth  
   136.    Failure to furnish returns  
   137.    Delegation by Electoral Commission  
   138.    Delegation by Electoral Commissioner  
   139.    Injunctions  
   140.    Prosecution of offences  
   141.    Referendum papers received by post  
   142.    Preservation of ballot-papers, &c.  
   143.    No referendum or vote of a State or Territory to be held on voting day  
   144.    Regulations  
   145.     Repeal  
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