Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128:section:71aa
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 71AA
Character Range: 147573–148473

71AA  Postal votes not to be rejected in certain circumstances
 (1) A postal vote must not be rejected because of a mistake in spelling if the elector's intention is clear.
 (2) A postal vote received in an envelope (an outer envelope) that also contains an envelope bearing a postal vote certificate is not to be rejected because the postal vote is not inside the envelope bearing the postal vote certificate.
 (3) For the purposes of this Act, the outer envelope is to be dealt with as if it were an envelope:
 (a) bearing a postal vote certificate; and
 (b) purporting to contain a postal ballot paper or postal vote.
 (4) However, despite subsection (3), the following provisions apply only in relation to the envelope bearing the postal vote certificate:
 (a) paragraphs 67(2)(c), (d) and (e);
 (b) section 68;
 (c) paragraph 6 of Schedule 4.

Part IVA—Pre‑poll voting

Division 1—Introduction