New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 178

178 Application of provisions to grounds of voting centre enclosure

(1) If--

(a) a building used as a voting centre is situated in grounds within an enclosure, and

(b) the appointment under section 108 of the voting centre does not indicate whether or not the grounds are part of the voting centre,

the grounds are not, but the building is, taken to be part of the voting centre for the purposes of sections 191 (Display of posters on early voting days at early voting centres), 192 (Canvassing on early voting days at early voting centres), 196 (Display of posters on election days) and 198 (Canvassing on election days).

(2) However, those grounds are taken to be part of the voting centre for the purposes of those sections if the election manager for the district concerned, with the concurrence of the Electoral Commissioner, causes to be displayed throughout the hours of voting at each entrance to those grounds a notice signed by the election manager stating that those grounds are treated as part of the voting centre.