Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279:clause:1_27:p12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 27 (pt 12/40)
Character Range: 56217–59014

day of nomination stand adjourned to polling day, the Returning Officer must immediately appoint a presiding officer to preside at each polling place and all necessary assistant presiding officers.

       (3) In any emergency on polling daydue to the absence of any assistant presiding officer or liaison officer, or to any unforeseen and continued pressure at the polling which cannot be met by the duly appointed officers, the presiding officer may appoint any person to act as assistant presiding officer or liaison officer and the person so appointed or acting is to be deemed to have been duly appointed if the Returning Officer afterwards ratifies the appointment by appointing that person to be assistant presiding officer or liaison officer, as the case may be.

       (4) No person under the age of 18 years may be appointed to be a presiding officer or assistant presiding officer.

       (5) Any assistant presiding officer may, subject to the direction of the presiding officer, exercise all or any of the powers of the presiding officer, and is, in respect of the exercise of those powers, to be taken to be the presiding officer.

      63  Substitute

        Any presiding officer may appoint a substitute to perform his or her duties during his or her temporary absence, and such substitute may, while so acting, exercise all of the powers of the presiding officer under these Rules that are necessary to exercise during the absence and is, in the exercise of those powers, deemed to be the presiding officer.

      64 Use of licensed premises as polling booth

        Premises licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquor may be used as a polling booth only if the Electoral Commissioner declares, in writing, that he or she is satisfied that, during the hours of polling on polling day:
          (a) intoxicating liquor will not be available for sale or consumption on the part of the premises proposed for use for the purpose of a polling booth; and
          (b) the part of the premises proposed for use for the purposes of a polling booth will be segregated from the part of the premises where intoxicating liquor will be available for sale or consumption; and
          (c) access to the part of the premises proposed for use for the purpose of a polling booth will not involve passing through the part of the premises where intoxicating liquor will be available for sale or consumption.

      65  Separate voting compartments

        Polling booths must have separate voting compartments, constructed so as to screen the voter s from observation while they are marking their ballot‑papers, and each voting compartment must be furnished with a pencil for the use of voters.

      66  Ballot‑boxes

        Each polling booth must be provided with the necessary