Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 3

3. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-

''absent voter'' means an elector voting or desiring to vote pursuant to
section 46 other than at a polling place appointed for the Division for which
he is enrolled;

''absent voting'' means voting as an absent voter pursuant to section 46;

''Antarctica'' means the Australian Antarctic Territory and includes-

   (a)  the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands; and

   (b)  Macquarie Island;

''Antarctic elector'' means an elector who is entitled to vote at a referendum
in accordance with Part V;

''Antarctic Returning Officer'', in relation to a station, means the person
appointed under section 247 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 to be the
Antarctic Returning Officer for that station, or a person acting as the
Antarctic Returning Officer for that station;

''approved'' means approved by the Electoral Commission by notice published in
the Gazette;

''Assistant Antarctic Returning Officer'', in relation to a station, means the
person appointed under section 247 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to be the Assistant Antarctic Returning Officer for that station, or a person
acting as the Assistant Antarctic Returning Officer for that station;

''Assistant Divisional Returning Officer'' means an Assistant Divisional
Returning Officer appointed under section 34 of the
Commonwealth Electoral Act  1918 ;

''Assistant Returning Officer'' means a person appointed to be an Assistant
Returning Officer under section 6 of this Act or, where the voting day for a
referendum is the same as that fixed for the polling at an election, under
section 33 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918;

''Australian Capital Territory'' includes the Jervis Bay Territory;

''Australian Electoral Officer'' means an Australian Electoral Officer for a
State or an Australian Electoral Officer for a Territory;

''Australian Electoral Officer for a State'' means an Australian Electoral
Officer for a State referred to in section 20 of the Commonwealth Electoral 
Act 1918 ;

''Australian Electoral Officer for a Territory'' means an Australian
Electoral Officer for a Territory appointed under section 5 of this Act or,
where the voting day for a referendum is the same as that fixed for the
polling at an election, under section 30 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 
1918 ;

''authorized witness'', in relation to any act or thing done by a person for
the purposes of voting at a referendum, means-

   (a)  in a case to which paragraph (b) does not apply-an elector; or

   (b)  in the case of an act or thing done outside Australia-

        (i)    an elector;

        (ii)   an officer of the Defence Force or of the naval, military or
               air forces of a part of the Queen's dominions;

        (iii)  a person employed in the Australian Public Service or in the
               Public Service of a State or Territory or of a part of the
               Queen's dominions;

        (iv)   a justice of the peace for, or a minister of religion or
               medical practitioner resident in, a Territory or a part of the
               Queen's dominions; or

        (v)    an Australian citizen;

''constable'' means a member or a special member of the Australian Federal
Police or a member of the Police Force of a State or Territory;

''Deputy Electoral Commissioner'' means the Deputy Electoral Commissioner
referred to in section 19 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918;

''Division'' means an Electoral Division created pursuant to the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 for the election of a member of the House of
Representatives;

''Divisional Returning Officer'' means a Divisional Returning Officer referred
to in section 32 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918;

''election'' means an election of a Member of the House of Representatives or
an election of Senators for a State or Territory;

''elector'' means a person whose name appears on a Roll as an elector;

''Electoral Commission'' means the Australian Electoral Commission established
by section 6 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918;

''Electoral Commissioner'' means the Electoral Commissioner referred to in
section 18 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918;

''electoral visitor'' means an electoral visitor appointed under section 49;

''eligible overseas elector'' means an elector who is entitled under the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 to be treated as an eligible overseas elector
for the purposes of that Act;

''hospital'' includes a convalescent home or an institution similar to a
hospital or to a convalescent home;

''itinerant elector'' means an elector who is entitled under section 96 of the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 to be treated as an itinerant elector for the
purposes of that Act;

''mobile polling team leader'' means a mobile polling team leader appointed
under section 51;

''mobile polling team member'' means a mobile polling team member appointed
under section 51;

''Northern Territory'' includes the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands;

''officer'' includes the Electoral Commissioner, the Deputy Electoral
Commissioner, an Australian Electoral Officer for a State or Territory, a
Divisional Returning Officer, an Assistant Returning Officer, an Assistant
Divisional Returning Officer, an Antarctic Returning Officer, an Assistant
Antarctic Returning Officer, a presiding officer, a substitute presiding
officer, an electoral visitor, a mobile polling team leader, a mobile polling
team member and a poll clerk;

''polling booth'' means a building, structure, vehicle or enclosure, or a part
of a building, structure, vehicle or enclosure, provided at a polling place
for the purpose of taking votes at a referendum;

''polling place'' means a place appointed as a polling place pursuant to
paragraph 80 (1) (a) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918;

''postal voting'' means voting pursuant to Part IV;

''referendum'' means the submission to the electors of a proposed law for the
alteration of the Constitution;

''referendum period'', in relation to a referendum, means the period
commencing on the day of the issue of the writ for the referendum and ending
at the latest time on the voting day for the referendum at which an elector in
Australia could enter a polling booth for the purpose of voting at the
referendum;

''registered medical practitioner'' means a person registered or licensed as a
medical practitioner under the law of a State or Territory, being a law that
provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners;

''Roll'' means a roll of electors kept pursuant to the Commonwealth  Electoral
Act 1918 ;

''special hospital'' means a special hospital within the meaning of section 49
and, where section 52 applies, includes a special hospital within the meaning
of section 225 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918;

''station'' means a research station in Antarctica that is operated by the
Commonwealth;

''substitute presiding officer'' means a person whom a presiding officer
appoints, pursuant to section 18, as a substitute to perform his duties during
his temporary absence;

''Subdivision'' means a Subdivision of a Division referred to in paragraph 79
(1) (a) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918;

''Territory'' means the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern
Territory;

''voting day'', in relation to a referendum, means the day fixed for the
taking of the votes for the purposes of the referendum.

(2) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-

   (a)  a reference to a Division shall be read as including a reference to
        the Northern Territory; and

   (b)  a reference to a Subdivision shall be read as including a reference to
        a District of that Territory.

(3) This Act extends to the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands.