Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 100A

100A .         Fixing day for commencement of postal application period

        (1)         The Electoral Commissioner may, by written notice published on the Commission website, fix a day as the day on which the postal application period for an election begins.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1), the day fixed must be —

            (a)         after —

                  (i)         for a periodic election — 1 November of the year before the year in which the polling day will occur; or

                  (ii)         for any other election — the public announcement of the polling day by the Government;

                and

            (b)         before the day on which the writ for the election is issued.

        [Section 100A inserted: No. 30 of 2023 s. 80.]