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REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 58

Dispatch of electoral materials to registered postal voters

58. (1) A Divisional Returning Officer for a Division shall, as soon as
practicable after the issue of the writ for a referendum, send an application
form for a postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper under section 56 to
each elector who is, on that day, a registered general postal voter (other
than a registered general postal voter to whom sub-section (2) applies) in the
Division, together with an envelope addressed to the Divisional Returning
Officer.

(2) A Divisional Returning Officer for a Division shall, as soon as
practicable after the issue of the writ for a referendum, deliver or post to
each elector who-

   (a)  is, on that day, a registered general postal voter in that Division;
        and

   (b)  became a registered general postal voter pursuant to a claim made
        under sub-section 98 (3) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 or
        pursuant to an application made under paragraph 185 (1) (e) or (f) of
        that Act, a postal vote certificate printed on an envelope addressed
        to the Divisional Returning Officer and a postal ballot-paper. 


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