Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 16

16. (1) The polling places appointed pursuant to paragraph 80 (1) (a) of the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 shall in addition be polling places for the
purposes of a referendum.

(2) The Electoral Commission shall, on at least one occasion after the issue
of a writ for a referendum but before the day fixed for taking the votes at
the referendum, if it is practicable to do so, in respect of each Division
cause to be published in a newspaper circulating in that Division a notice-

   (a)  setting out all polling places in that Division; and

   (b)  setting out all places that were, at the time of the last referendum
        or at the time of the last election for which a poll was taken in that
        Division, whichever last occurred, polling places for that Division
        but that have been abolished since that time.

(3) Where the voting day for a referendum is the same as that fixed for the
polling at an election, the publication by the Electoral Commission of a
notice in respect of a Division under sub-section 80 (3) of the Commonwealth 
Electoral Act 1918 shall be deemed to be a publication under sub-section (2)
of this section.