Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL ACT 2011 - SECT 73

73 Voting hours for polling booths

(1) The voting hours for an ordinary polling booth are between 8a.m. and 6p.m. on polling day.

(2) The voting hours for a mobile polling booth are the times fixed for the booth by the returning officer.

(3) The voting hours for a pre-polling booth are the times, during the pre-polling period, notified by the returning officer under section 50 (4) .

(4) If an elector is in a polling booth at the time of close of voting for the booth and for the purpose of casting a vote, the elector must be allowed to vote.

(5) In this section—

"pre-polling period" , for an election, means the period—

(a) starting no earlier than—

(i) 14 days before polling day; or

(ii) the longer period that the returning officer fixes and publishes on the electoral commission’s website, and in other ways the returning officer considers appropriate; and

(b) ending no later than the day before polling day.