Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The purpose of this section is to ensure that, as far as practicable, the validity of a referendum may be disputed in the same way as the validity of an election may be disputed and not otherwise.
(2) For the purpose of this section, the Electoral Act, part 16 applies, so far as the same is applicable, with the necessary changes.
(3) In particular—
(a) without limiting the Electoral Act, section 256 as applied, the validity of a referendum is taken to be in dispute if the notice of the voting at the referendum, prepared under section 14 (4) (b), is called into question; and
(b) Part 16 applies subject to the modifications set out in schedule 1, part 1.4.
(4) A referendum is not invalidated merely because the commissioner may not have strictly complied with section 8.