Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 34

34. (1) If the name of a person claiming to vote at a referendum appears on
the certified list of voters at the polling booth at which the person claims
to vote, the presiding officer or a poll clerk at the polling booth shall,
immediately after handing to the person a ballot-paper, place a mark against
the person's name on the certified list of voters.

(2) The presiding officer at a polling place shall make a record of the name
of each elector who votes at the polling place as an absent voter and of the
Division for which the elector declares under sub-section 46 (1) that he is
enrolled, and shall, at the close of the voting at the referendum, forward the
record, duly certified by him, to the Assistant Returning Officer designated
for the purposes of sub-section 46 (6) by the Divisional Returning Officer.

(3) Where the voting day for a referendum is the same as that fixed for the
polling at an election, sub-section (1) of this section does not require the
placing of more than one mark against a person's name on a certified list of
voters, and a presiding officer shall be deemed to have complied with
sub-section (2) of this section if he has complied with sub-section 232 (2) of
the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.