Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 31

31. (1) Where the voting day for a referendum is the same as that fixed for
the polling at an election, the answers by a person claiming to vote at the
referendum to the questions put to him pursuant to section 229 of the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 for the purposes of the election may, if they
are satisfactory as regards the election, be accepted as sufficient to enable
the person to vote at the referendum.

(2) Where a presiding officer accepts, pursuant to sub-section (1), the
answers by a person to the questions referred to in that sub-section as
sufficient to enable the person to vote at a referendum, the presiding officer
may, if he thinks fit, put to the person claiming to vote the following
question, namely, Have you already voted, either here or elsewhere, at this
referendum (or these referendums, as the case requires)?

(3) If a person claiming to vote at a referendum when the question referred to
in sub-section (2) is put to him does not answer the question or answers that
question in the affirmative, the person's claim to vote shall be rejected.