Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 246

             (1)  In this Part:

"Antarctica" means the Australian Antarctic Territory and includes:

                     (a)  the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands; and

                     (b)  Macquarie Island.

"Antarctic elector" means an elector who:

                     (a)  is, in the course of his or her employment, in Antarctica on the polling day for an election; and

                     (b)  has made a request under section 249 that the elector be treated, while he or she is in Antarctica, as an Antarctic elector.

"research personnel" means personnel who are to be, or have been, engaged in the work of a research station in Antarctica operated, whether continuously or otherwise, by the Commonwealth.

"station" means:

                     (a)  a research station in Antarctica that is operated by the Commonwealth and has been declared by the Electoral Commissioner, by written instrument, to be a permanent research station; or

                     (b)  in relation to a particular election, a ship that has been declared by the Electoral Commissioner, by written instrument, to be a station for the purposes of this Part in relation to that election.

"transmit" includes transmit by radio-telephone or telex.

             (2)  The Electoral Commissioner shall not make a declaration under paragraph (b) of the definition of station in subsection (1) in relation to a ship unless the Electoral Commissioner is satisfied that, on polling day in the election, the ship is likely to be at sea transporting research personnel to or from Antarctica.