Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 30

30. (1) The presiding officer shall put the following questions to each person
attending before him and claiming to vote at a referendum or referendums:

   (a)  What is your full name?

   (b)  Where do you live?

   (c)  Have you voted before at this referendum? or Have you voted before at
        these referendums? (as the case requires).

(2) In addition to the questions put under sub-section (1), the presiding
officer shall ask each person claiming to vote as an absent voter to identify
the Division for which the person is enrolled.

(3) Where, in answer to the question specified in paragraph (1) (b) put to him
by a presiding officer, a person (other than an absent voter, an eligible
overseas elector or an itinerant elector) gives a place of living other than-

   (a)  his place of living shown on the certified list; or

   (b)  another place of living in the Division in respect of which he claims
        to vote, the presiding officer shall ask the following question: At
        what other place or places have you lived during the last 3 months?

(4) If the answers to the questions specified in paragraphs (1) (a) and (b)
that are given by a person claiming to vote at a referendum are not sufficient
to distinguish that person from another person on the certified list, the
presiding officer may, for the purpose of distinguishing the 2 persons, ask
the person claiming to vote another question or other questions relating to
matters shown on the certified list in relation to those persons.

(5) Subject to section 39, if a person claiming to vote at a referendum to
whom questions are put under this section-

   (a)  refuses to answer fully any question so put to him;

   (b)  so answers the question specified in paragraph (1) (b) and the
        question specified in sub-section (3) as to indicate that he is not
        entitled to vote by reason of him not having, at any time during the 3
        months immediately preceding voting day, had his real place of living
        in the Division in respect of which he claims to vote; or

   (c)  answers a question specified in paragraph (1) (c) in the affirmative,
        his claim to vote shall be rejected.

(6) The reference in paragraph (5) (b) to the real place of living of a person
shall be read as including a reference to a place from which the person is
temporarily absent if the person has a fixed intention to return to that place
for the purpose of continuing to live at that place.