New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 47

47 Public inspection of authorised roll during election period

(1) As soon as practicable after an authorised roll for a district has been prepared by the Electoral Commissioner after the issue of the writ for an election, the Commissioner is to make a copy of the roll available for public inspection.

(2) The copy of the authorised roll is--

(a) to be made available, during ordinary office hours, for public inspection without fee at the office of the Electoral Commission and such other place or places as the Electoral Commissioner determines, and

(b) to remain available for public inspection until 40 days after the return of the writ.

(3) The Electoral Commissioner may make a copy of an authorised roll available for public inspection without fee in any other way that the Commissioner considers appropriate.

(4) A person inspecting a copy of an authorised roll under this section is not entitled to use a device (such as a camera, mobile phone, video recorder or other electronic device) to copy, record or transmit the contents of the roll or any part of the roll, but this subsection does not prevent a person taking hand-written notes of any of those contents.

(5) A copy of an authorised roll made available under this section must not contain any particulars relating to a person's date of birth.

Note : The authorised roll used at a voting centre will specify a person's date of birth. It is only the special copy prepared for the purposes of this section that will have the date of birth removed.
An authorised roll is a public register for the purposes of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 and is subject to the provisions of that Act relating to such public registers.