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ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 119 Polling places and scrutiny centres

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 119

Polling places and scrutiny centres

    (1)     The commissioner may—

        (a)     appoint a specified place to be a polling place on polling day for an election; and

        (b)     appoint a specified place to be a scrutiny centre during the election period for the purpose of the scrutiny at an election.

    (2)     An appointment is a notifiable instrument.

Note     A notifiable instrument must be notified under the Legislation Act 2001

.

    (3)     During a pre-election period, the commissioner—

        (a)     must give additional public notice of the particulars of each polling place for the election; and

Note     Public notice means notice on an ACT government website or in a daily newspaper circulating in the ACT (see Legislation Act

, dict, pt 1). The requirement in s (3) is in addition to the requirement for notification on the legislation register as a notifiable instrument.

        (b)     may publish notice of the particulars of each polling place for the election by any other means the commissioner determines.