Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279:clause:1_27:p16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 27 (pt 16/40)
Character Range: 66183–68813

a polling booth is to be open under subrule (2):
          (a) the polling booth must not close until all voters present in the polling booth at the hour specified in the notice for the close of that polling booth have voted; and
          (b) a person must not be admitted to that polling booth for the purpose of voting after the hour specified in the notice for the close of the booth.

       (4) In relation to the notice under subrule (2), the Electoral Commissioner must:
          (a) cause the notice to be published in the Gazette; and
          (b) take such steps as he or she thinks fit to give public notice of the contents of the notice.

      75 Where voters may vote

       (1) On polling daya voter is entitled to vote at any polling place for the ward in respect of which he or she is enrolled or to vote as an absent voter, on making a declaration in an approved form, at any other polling place at which a polling booth is open.

       (2) Nothing in this rule authorises a voter to vote more than once at any election.

      76  Interpretation

        In rules 77 and 78, patient, in relation to a hospital, does not include a person attending the hospital as an out‑patient.

      77  Mobile polling booths — hospitals

       (1) The Electoral Commissioner may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare the whole or a specified part of a hospital, to be a special hospital for the purposes of taking votes under this rule in a specified election.

       (2) A Returning Officer may appoint electoral visitors and liaison officers for the purposes of this rule.

       (3) An electoral visitor may make arrangements with an appropriate person, or appropriate persons, on the staff of a hospital (being a hospital the whole or part of which is a special hospital) for the votes of patients in the special hospital to be taken under this rule.

       (4) Subject to rule subrule (6) and rule 78, where:
          (a) arrangements are in force under subrule (3) in relation to a special hospital; and
          (b) a patient in the special hospital is a voter; and
          (c) under the arrangements, the vote of the patient may be taken under this rule; and
          (d) the patient wishes so to vote;
      an electoral visitor, accompanied by a liaison officer, a polling official and such scrutineers, if any, as wish to accompany him or her, must take to the patient a ballot‑box, a ballot‑paper and such other things as are necessary to enable the vote of the patient to be taken.

       (5) These Rules apply in relation to the taking of the vote of the patient as if, during the time