Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:227:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 227 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 487239–489780

At any time when a team is at a place for the purposes of taking votes under this section in an election:
 (a) the team shall have:
 (i) ballot‑boxes, ballot papers and such other things as are necessary for the votes of electors to be taken at the place; and
 (ii) the "how‑to‑vote" cards (if any) supplied to it by the candidates;
 (b) every person at the place who is:
 (i) in the case of a by‑election—entitled to vote in the election; or
 (ii) in any other case—an elector for the State or Territory in which the place is situated;
  is entitled to have his or her vote taken under this section;
 (c) for purposes of, and in connection with, the taking of votes under this section:
 (i) the place shall be deemed to be a polling place;
 (ii) the building, structure, vehicle or enclosure used by the leader for the purposes of taking votes under this section shall be deemed to be a polling booth at that polling place; and
 (iii) the leader shall be deemed to be the presiding officer at that polling booth;
 (d) so far as is practicable, a vote under this section shall be taken as if it were taken under the other provisions (not being section 224) of this Act (including such of those other provisions as relate to absent voting);
 (da) section 220 applies as if, for paragraph 220(b), there were substituted the following paragraph:
              "(b) the polling may be conducted:
                  (i) at any time on a day before polling day; and
                  (ii) on polling day, until all electors present in the polling booth at 6 p.m., and desiring to vote, have voted;"; and
 (e) sections 340 and 341 apply as if the references (however described) in subsections 340(1), (1A) and (2) and 341(1) to polling day, or a day to which the polling is adjourned for the election, were a reference to the time of the visit.
 (9) Paragraph 220(a) does not apply to a leader after the first visit made by the leader for the purposes of this section.
 (10) At the end of the last visit made by a leader for the purposes of this section, the leader shall, in the presence of a member of his or her team and any scrutineers who may be in attendance, publicly close, fasten, seal and take charge of each ballot‑box used by the leader for the purposes of this section and, with the least possible delay, forward it for the purposes of scrutiny to the Divisional Returning Officer or Assistant Returning Officer designated for the purposes of this subsection by the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division in which that last visit