New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 31

31 Entitlement to vote

(1) Subject to this Act, a person who is enrolled for a district is entitled to vote at any election for the Assembly for the district.

Note : Section 22 of the Constitution Act 1902 provides that persons entitled to vote at a general election of members of the Legislative Assembly, and only those persons, are entitled to vote at a periodic Council election.

(2) Despite subsection (1), a person who has been enrolled, but who has not attained 18 years of age on the date appointed as the election day for an election, is taken for the purposes of that election to not be enrolled or entitled to be enrolled.

Note : Accordingly, a person is not entitled to vote or be appointed as a scrutineer if he or she has not attained 18 years of age.