Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128:section:51:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 51 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 119130–121567

in charge of the prison, or a member of the staff of the prison, that the visit is forbidden by the officer in charge because of circumstances related to the security of the prison.
 (7) Any failure by a team to make a visit in accordance with this section does not invalidate the result of the referendum.
 (8) At any time when a team is at a place for the purposes of taking votes under this section at a referendum:
 (a) the team shall have ballot‑boxes, ballot papers and such other things as are necessary for the votes of electors to be taken at the place;
 (b) every person at the place who is an elector for the State or Territory in which the place is situated is entitled to have his or her vote taken under this section;
 (c) for purposes of, and in connection with, the taking of votes under this section:
 (i) the place shall be deemed to be a polling place;
 (ii) the building, structure, vehicle or enclosure used by the leader for the purposes of taking votes under this section shall be deemed to be a polling booth; and
 (iii) the leader shall be deemed to be the presiding officer at that polling booth;
 (d) so far as is practicable, a vote under this section shall be taken as if it were taken under the other provisions of this Act (other than section 48) including such of those provisions as relate to absent voting;
 (da) section 29 applies as if, for paragraph 29(b), there were substituted the following paragraph:
 "(b) the voting may be conducted:
 (i) at any time on a day before voting day; and
 (ii) on polling day, until all electors present in the polling booth at 6 pm and desiring to vote have voted; and";
 (e) sections 131 and 132 apply as if the references (however described) in subsections 131(1), (1A) and (2) and 132(1) to the voting day for the referendum, or a day to which the taking of votes of the electors at the referendum has been adjourned, were a reference to the time of the visit.
 (9) Paragraph 29(1)(a) does not apply to a leader after the first visit made by the leader for the purposes of this section.
 (10) At the end of the last visit made by a leader for the purposes of this section, the leader shall, in the presence of a member of his or her team and any scrutineers appointed under section 27 who may be in attendance, publicly close, fasten, seal and take charge of each ballot‑box used by the leader for the purposes of this section and, with the least possible delay,