Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:194:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 194 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 410411–411949

for which the person is enrolled within 13 days after polling day; or
 (b) a ballot paper, if it were to be delivered to the DRO for the Division for which the person is enrolled, would be unlikely to reach the DRO before the close of the poll;
the envelope containing the ballot paper may:
 (c) before the close of the poll be addressed to, and posted or delivered to, any other DRO or to an Assistant Returning Officer at a place outside Australia; or
 (d) be handed to a pre‑poll voting officer; or
 (e) be delivered, on polling day and before the close of the poll, to a presiding officer (other than an electoral visitor or mobile polling team leader who is deemed to be a presiding officer); or
 (g) be handed to a mobile polling team leader when the team is at a place for the purpose of taking votes under section 227; or
 (h) be handed, before the close of the poll, to a person who is at a capital city office of the Electoral Commission and who is:
 (i) the holder of a particular office provided for by Division 3 or 4 of Part II; or
 (ii) a member of the staff of the Electoral Commission (not being the holder of a particular office referred to in subparagraph (i)) who is engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 as an ongoing APS employee within the meaning of that Act, or who is employed under paragraph 35(1)(b) of this Act.
 (3) A person to whom an envelope containing a ballot paper is posted, delivered or handed under subsection (2) shall deal with the envelope and ballot paper according to sections 195A and 228.