New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 261

261 List to be evidence

(1) An entry on the list prepared under section 259 to the effect--

(a) that a penalty notice was issued to an elector--is evidence of the issue of the notice, or

(b) that there was no response to a penalty notice issued to an elector--is evidence that there was no such response within the time specified under section 259, or

(c) that a reason for an elector's failure to vote was given in response to a penalty notice but was insufficient--is evidence that the reason given was not a sufficient reason under section 259.

(2) A list prepared under section 259 containing the name of an elector is evidence that the elector did not vote at the election.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply in relation to a copy of, or an extract from, the list prepared under section 259, certified by the Electoral Commissioner to be a true copy or extract, in the same way as those provisions apply in relation to the list prepared under section 259.