Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128:section:3:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 4/6)
Character Range: 20200–23094

the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 to be treated as an itinerant elector for the purposes of that Act.
listed carriage service has the meaning given by section 16 of the Telecommunications Act 1997.
mobile polling team leader means a mobile polling team leader appointed under section 51.
mobile polling team member means a mobile polling team member appointed under section 51.
Northern Territory includes the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the Territory of Christmas Island.
officer includes the Electoral Commissioner, the Deputy Electoral Commissioner, the Australian Electoral Officer for a State or Territory, a Divisional Returning Officer, an Assistant Returning Officer, an Assistant Divisional Returning Officer, a presiding officer, a deputy presiding officer, a substitute presiding officer, an assistant presiding officer, a pre‑poll voting officer, a mobile polling team leader and a mobile polling team member, and any other member of the staff of the Electoral Commission who is a delegate of the Electoral Commissioner under section 138.
polling booth means a building, structure, vehicle or enclosure, or a part of a building, structure, vehicle or enclosure, provided at a polling place for the purpose of taking votes at a referendum.
polling official means a deputy presiding officer or an assistant presiding officer.
polling place means a place appointed as a polling place pursuant to paragraph 80(1)(a) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
postal voting means voting pursuant to Part IV.
pre‑poll declaration vote: see subsection 71A(2).
pre‑poll ordinary vote: see subsection 71A(2).
pre‑poll voting office for a referendum means a place declared by the Electoral Commissioner under subsection 73AA(1) to be a pre‑poll voting office for the referendum.
provisionally enrolled has the meaning given by subsection (1A).
referendum means the submission to the electors of a proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution.
referendum entity means a person or entity that incurs referendum expenditure during a referendum expenditure period that exceeds the disclosure threshold.
referendum expenditure has the meaning given by section 3AAA.
referendum expenditure period means the period:
 (a) starting on the day that is 6 months before the writ for a referendum is issued; and
 (b) ending on the voting day for the referendum.
referendum matter has the meaning given by section 3AA.
referendum period, in relation to a referendum, means the period commencing on the day of the issue of the writ for the referendum and ending at the latest time on the voting day for the referendum at which an elector in Australia could enter a polling booth for the purpose of voting at the referendum.
registered medical practitioner means a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under the law of a State or Territory, being a law that provides for