Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 64

64. (1) The Divisional Returning Officer for a Division in respect of which
postal vote certificates and postal ballot-papers are issued for the purposes
of a referendum shall, if there is time conveniently to do so, note on the
certified list of voters for that Division the names of all electors to whom
postal vote certificates and postal ballot-papers have been issued.

(2) Where a postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper is issued to an
elector and the name of that elector is not noted on the relevant certified
list of voters pursuant to sub-section (1), the Divisional Returning Officer
for the Division for which the elector claims to vote shall take such steps as
he considers reasonable to advise the presiding officers to whom that
certified list of voters has been furnished of the issue of the postal vote
certificate and postal ballot-paper.

(3) An elector to whom a postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper have
been issued for the purposes of voting at a referendum is not entitled to vote
at the referendum at a polling booth unless he delivers to the presiding
officer at the polling booth his postal vote certificate and postal
ballot-paper for cancellation.

(4) Where the voting day for a referendum is the same as that fixed for the
polling at an election, a Divisional Returning Officer who complies with
sub-section 191 (1) or (2) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 shall be
deemed to have complied with sub-section (1) or (2), as the case may be, of
this section.