Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 131

131. (1) A person shall not, on the voting day for a referendum, or on a day
to which the taking of votes of the electors at a referendum has been
adjourned under section 42 or 43, at the entrance of, or in any place within 6
metres of the entrance of, a polling booth at which voting at the referendum
is taking place-

   (a)  induce an elector to vote in a particular way at the referendum;

   (b)  induce an elector not to vote at the referendum; or

   (c)  exhibit any notice or sign (other than an official notice or sign)
        that relates to the referendum.

Penalty: $500.

(2) Where-

   (a)  a building used as a polling booth at a referendum is situated in
        grounds within an enclosure; and

   (b)  the relevant Divisional Returning Officer causes to be displayed at
        each entrance to those grounds throughout the hours on which the
        polling booth is open on the voting day for the referendum, or on any
        day to which the taking of the votes of the electors at the referendum
        has been adjourned under section 42 or 43, a notice signed by him
        stating that those grounds are, for the purposes of sub-section (1),
        part of the polling booth, those grounds shall, for the purposes of
        sub-section (1), be deemed to be part of the polling booth.