Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128:section:73aa:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00128
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 73AA (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 152514–154100

be a pre‑poll voting office for a referendum may be a place that has been determined under paragraph 51(4)(a) to be a place that teams will visit for the purposes of taking votes under section 51 at the referendum.
 (3) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(b)(i), the Electoral Commissioner must, as soon as practicable after making the declaration:
 (a) take all reasonable steps to inform each registered political party that the Electoral Commissioner considers it appropriate to inform, of the place, the day or days, and the hours specified in the declaration; and
 (b) if the Electoral Commissioner considers it appropriate to do so, publish in a newspaper circulating in the Division in which the place specified in the declaration is located a notice stating:
 (i) that the place has been declared to be a pre‑poll voting office; and
 (ii) the day or days on which, and the hours during which, applications for pre‑poll votes may be made to a pre‑poll voting officer at that place.
 (3A) If the Electoral Commissioner makes a declaration under subsection (1A), he or she must cause a copy of the declaration to be published on the Electoral Commission's website and in any other way he or she considers appropriate.
 (4) A declaration made under subsection (1) or (1A) is not a legislative instrument.
 (4A) Failure to publish in accordance with this section a copy of a declaration made under subsection (1) or (1A) does not affect the validity of the declaration.
 (5) In this section:
registered political party has the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.