Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128:section:65:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 65 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 138638–140074

person is enrolled, would be unlikely to reach the DRO before the close of voting;
the envelope containing the ballot paper may:
 (c) before the close of voting 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 voting day and before the close of voting, to a presiding officer (other than a 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 51; 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 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 or by section 5 or 6 of this Act; 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 the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
 (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 section 67.