Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 41

41. (1) If a person voting at a referendum, before depositing his ballot-paper
in a ballot-box, satisfies the presiding officer at the polling booth at which
the person is voting that the person has spoilt his ballot-paper by mistake or
accident, the presiding officer shall provide the person with a new
ballot-paper and shall cancel the spoilt ballot-paper and deal with it as
prescribed.

(2) If a person voting at a referendum in a manner that will involve his
ballot-paper being placed in an envelope satisfies the officer who issued him
with a ballot-paper that, before the ballot-paper was placed in the relevant
envelope, he spoilt the ballot-paper by mistake or accident, the officer shall
provide the person with a new ballot-paper and shall cancel the spoilt
ballot-paper and deal with it as prescribed.