New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 128

128 Questions to be put if voter challenged

(1) An election official may, and at the request of any scrutineer must, put to any person claiming to vote all or any of the following questions--

(a) Are you the person whose name appears as [here state name under which the person claims to vote [#93] on the roll for the district of [here state the name of the district in respect of which the person claims to vote [#93]?

(b) Are you of or above the age of 18 years?

(c) Have you already voted, either here or elsewhere, at this election?

(d) Are you disqualified from voting?

(e) Do you live within the district of [here state the name of the district in respect of which the elector claims to vote [#93]?

(2) If any person refuses to answer fully any question put to him or her by the election official, or by his or her answer shows that he or she is not entitled to vote, his or her claim to vote must be rejected.

(3) The voter's answer to the question is conclusive and the matter is not to be further inquired into during the voting.

(4) A person must not give an answer to a question under this section that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

: Maximum penalty--200 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 years, or both.

(5) An offence under this section is an indictable offence.