Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 55

55. An elector who-

   (a)  throughout the hours of voting on the voting day for a referendum-

        (i)    will not be within the State or Territory in which he is
               enrolled;

        (ii)   will not be within 8 kilometres by the nearest practicable
               route of any polling booth open in the State or Territory for
               which he is enrolled;

        (iii)  will be travelling under conditions that will preclude him from
               voting at a polling booth in the State or Territory for which
               he is enrolled; or

        (iv)   will be a patient in a hospital (other than a special hospital)
               and be unable to vote at that hospital at a referendum;

   (b)  is seriously ill or infirm and by reason of the illness or infirmity
        will be precluded from attending any polling booth to vote at a
        referendum;

   (c)  is, at a place other than a hospital, caring for a person who is
        seriously ill or infirm or approaching maternity and by reason of
        caring for the person will be precluded from attending at any
        polling booth to vote at a referendum;

   (d)  will-

        (i)    throughout the hours of voting on the voting day for a
               referendum be a patient in a special hospital; and

        (ii)   be unable to have his vote taken at that hospital in accordance
               with section 49;

   (e)  being a woman, will, by reason of approaching maternity, be precluded
        from attending any polling booth to vote at a referendum;

   (f)  is, by reason of his membership of a religious order or his religious
        beliefs-

        (i)    precluded from attending any polling booth to vote at a
               referendum; or

        (ii)   precluded from voting throughout the hours of voting on the
               voting day for a referendum or throughout a greater part of
               those hours; or

   (g)  is, by reason of-

        (i)    serving a sentence of imprisonment; or

        (ii)   being otherwise in lawful custody or detention,

precluded from attending at any polling booth to vote at a referendum, may
apply, either orally or in writing, for a postal vote certificate and a postal
ballot-paper for the purposes of voting at the referendum.