Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279:clause:1_27:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 27 (pt 8/40)
Character Range: 45609–48514

voter is an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander.

       (4) The senior liaison officer must:
          (a) by the close of business on the second Monday after polling day, tell the Returning Officer whether or not, having regard to the panel's determination, the postal vote should be admitted for further scrutiny; and
          (b) send all relevant documents, including any documents given to the panel in the course of its investigation (if any), to the Returning Officer.

       (5) The Returning Officer must tell the voter whether or not, having regard to the panel's determination, the postal vote will be admitted for further scrutiny.

               Division 3  Pre‑poll voting

      50  Grounds for applying for pre‑poll vote

        A voter may apply for a pre‑poll vote on a ground set out in Schedule 2.

      51  Pre‑polling voting officers

        The Returning Officer may appoint a person to be a pre‑poll voting officer for the purposes of these Rules.

      52  Applying for a pre‑poll vote

       (1) Application for a pre‑poll vote may be made to:
          (a) the Returning Officer; or
          (b) a pre‑poll voting officer.

       (2) An applicant must:
          (a) apply in person; and
          (b) tell the officer to whom he or she applies:
             (i) the ward for which the applicant is enrolled; and
             (ii) any matters necessary for the officer to establish the applicant's entitlement to vote in relation to the ward.

      53  Place and time for applying

       (1) An application to the Returning Officer may be made only at his or her office during:
          (a) ordinary office hours; or
          (b) the hours of polling on polling day.

       (2) An application to a pre‑poll voting officer may be made only:
          (a) at a place declared by the Electoral Commissioner by notice published in the Gazette, to be a pre‑poll voting office; and
          (b) on a day, and during the hours, fixed by the Electoral Commissioner by notice published in the Gazette.

       (3) Application cannot be made after the close of the poll in the ward for which the voter is enrolled.

      54  Pre‑poll voting

       (1) An officer to whom a voter properly applies for a pre‑poll vote (in this rule called the issuing officer) must issue to the voter:
          (a) a pre‑poll voter card attached to an envelope; and
          (b) a ballot‑paper.

       (2) Before issuing the ballot‑paper, the issuing officer must initial, in writing, the top of the front of the ballot‑paper.

       (3) The following requirements for pre‑poll voting must be substantially given effect:
          (a) the voter must sign the pre‑poll voter card in the presence of the issuing officer;
          (b) the issuing officer must sign the pre‑poll voter card as witness and write on the pre‑poll voter card the date of his or her signing