COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 210 Printing of Senate ballot papers

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 210

  (1)   In printing the ballot papers to be used in a Senate election:

  (a)   the names of candidates by whom requests have been made under section   168 shall be printed in groups on the ballot papers in accordance with the requests and before the names of candidates who have not made such requests;

  (b)   the order of the names of the candidates, who have only made a request under paragraph   168(1)(a), must be determined by the Australian Electoral Officer in accordance with section   213;

  (c)   the order of the several groups in the ballot papers shall be determined by the Australian Electoral Officer in accordance with section   213;

  (d)   the order of the names of the candidates whose names are not included in any group shall be determined by the Australian Electoral Officer in accordance with section   213;

  (e)   where similarity in the names of 2 or more candidates is likely to cause confusion the names of those candidates may be arranged with such description or addition as will distinguish them from one another; and

  (f)   except as otherwise provided by the regulations:

  (i)   a square must be printed to correspond with the name of each candidate; and

  (ii)   for candidates who made a request under section   168 that their names be grouped in the ballot papers for the election--a square must be printed above the dividing line and above the squares printed to correspond with those names.

  (3)   The names of candidates not included in a group shall be printed on the ballot papers according to the following rules:

  (a)   unless paragraph   (b) applies, the names of the candidates must be printed in a single column;

  (b)   if a single column would be longer than the longest column containing the names of candidates included in groups, the names of the candidates may be printed in 2 or more columns;

  (c)   if the names of the candidates are printed in 2 or more columns, none of the columns may be longer than the longest column containing the names of candidates included in groups.