Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00105:section:143
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00105
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 143
Character Range: 56214–57534

143  Fixing of election days, and location of polling places, to be notified in Gazette
 (1) The Minister must cause a copy of the notice under subsection 142Y(2) fixing a polling day or polling days for a TSRA election to be published in the Gazette at least 90 days before the day, or the first of the days, so fixed.
 (2) The Minister must cause to be published, together with the copy referred to in subsection (1):
 (a) a copy of the most recent notice appointing polling places under section 142Z; and
 (b) a notice setting out an estimate by the Minister, in relation to the Torres Strait area, of:
 (i) the number of persons who will be entitled to vote at the forthcoming TSRA election; and
 (ii) the number of persons living in that area who are Torres Strait Islanders or Aboriginal persons; and
 (c) if the Torres Strait area is divided into wards—a notice setting out an estimate by the Minister, in relation to each ward, of:
 (i) the number of persons who will be entitled to vote at the forthcoming election for that ward; and
 (ii) the number of persons living in that ward who are Torres Strait Islanders or Aboriginal persons.
 (3) A failure by the Minister to comply with this section does not invalidate the fixing of the day or days, or the appointing of the polling places, as the case requires.