Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2011C00178:clause:1_73ci
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2011C00178
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 73CI
Character Range: 30812–32278

73CI  Questions to be put to voter

 (1) The issuing officer must ask the voter the following questions:
 (a) What is your full name?
 (b) Where do you live?
 (c) Have you voted before in this referendum? or Have you voted before in these referendums? (as the case requires).

 (2) If the answers the voter gives to the questions in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) do not satisfy the issuing officer that the applicant is a particular person on a copy of the certified list of voters for a particular Division, the officer may ask the voter one or more other questions about matters shown on the list for the particular person, to establish whether the voter is that particular person.

If election is held on same day

 (3) If the voting day for a referendum is the same as that fixed for the polling at an election, the answers by the voter under section 200DI of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 for the purposes of the election may, if they are satisfactory as regards the election, be accepted as sufficient to enable the person to vote at the referendum.

 (4) If the issuing officer accepts, pursuant to subsection (3), the answers by the voter to the questions referred to in that subsection as sufficient to enable the person to vote at a referendum, the officer may, if he or she thinks fit, put to the voter the following question, namely, Have you already voted, either here or elsewhere, at this referendum (or these referendums, as the case requires)?