Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2020A00095:clause:1_161
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2020A00095
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 161
Character Range: 47997–48661

161  Subsections 31(2) and (3)
Repeal the subsections, substitute:
 (2) If the presiding officer or a polling official accepts under subsection (1) the answers by a person as sufficient to enable the person to vote at a referendum, the officer or official may, if the officer or official thinks fit, put to the person questions in order to ascertain whether the person has voted before in the referendum or referendums.
 (3) If the person answers so as to indicate that the person has voted before in the referendum or referendums or does not answer, the person's claim to vote must be rejected if the presiding officer is satisfied that this subsection applies.