Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:4:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 7/7)
Character Range: 34958–37243

reference to a Subdivision shall be read as including a reference to a District of that Territory specified in a notice published under subsection 79(1).
 (6) This Act extends to:
 (a) Norfolk Island; and
 (b) the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands; and
 (c) the Territory of Christmas Island.
 (7) In relation to a Senate election, a provision of this Act that:
 (a) provides for the giving of a document to; or
 (b) confers a power or function on;
the Australian Electoral Officer shall be taken to refer to the Australian Electoral Officer for the State or Territory in which the election is to be conducted.
 (7A) Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in this Act to an election or poll in, for or in relation to, a Division or Subdivision, includes a reference to a Senate election, or a poll for a Senate election, for the State or Territory that includes the Division or Subdivision.
 (8) In relation to an election of a member of the House of Representatives for a Division, a provision of this Act that:
 (a) provides for the giving of a document to; or
 (b) confers a power or function on;
the Divisional Returning Officer shall be taken to refer to the Divisional Returning Officer for that Division.
 (10) In this Act, a reference to the principal office of the Electoral Commission in a place is a reference to the office for the time being declared by the Electoral Commissioner, by notice published in the Gazette, to be the principal office of the Commission in that place.
 (11) In determining whether a person is next of kin of another person, the following persons are also to be taken into account:
 (a) a de facto partner of the person;
 (b) a child of the person, or someone of whom the person is a child, because of the definition of child in this section;
 (c) anyone else who would be a relative of the person because someone mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) is taken into account.
 (12) In this Act:
 (a) a reference to a postal vote certificate printed on an envelope is taken to include a reference to a postal vote certificate that is placed inside an envelope; and
 (b) a reference to an envelope on which a postal vote certificate is printed is taken to include a reference to an envelope that has a postal vote certificate placed inside.