Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SCHEDULE 2

Sections 183 and 200A       

              1.  Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the elector will be absent from the State or Territory for which the elector is enrolled.

              2.  The elector will not, at any time during the hours of polling on polling day, be within 8 kilometres by the nearest practicable route of any polling booth in the State or Territory for which the elector is enrolled.

              3.  Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the elector will be travelling under conditions that will prevent the elector attending a polling booth in the State or Territory for which the elector is enrolled.

              4.  The elector will be unable to attend a polling booth on polling day because of:

                     (a)  serious illness;

                     (b)  infirmity; or

                     (c)  approaching childbirth.

(In the case of an elector who will be a patient at a hospital on polling day, this paragraph applies regardless of the operation of sections 224 and 225.)

              5.  On polling day, the elector will be unable to attend a polling booth because the elector will be at a place (other than a hospital) caring for a person who is seriously ill or infirm or who is expected shortly to give birth.

              6.  Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the elector will be a patient at a hospital (other than a special hospital) and unable to vote at the hospital.

              7.  Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the elector will be a patient at a special hospital but will be unable to have his or her vote taken under section 225.

              8.  Because of the elector's religious beliefs or membership of a religious order, the elector:

                     (a)  is precluded from attending a polling booth; or

                     (b)  for the greater part of the hours of polling on polling day, is precluded from attending a polling booth.

              9.  On polling day, the elector will be serving a sentence of imprisonment or otherwise under detention.

             10.  The elector's address has been excluded from the Roll under section 104.

             11.  Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the elector will be engaged in his or her employment or occupation and:

                     (a)  if the elector is an employee, the elector is not entitled to leave of absence under section 345; and

                     (b)  in any other case, the absence of the elector for the purpose of attending at a polling booth to vote would be likely to cause loss to the person in his or her occupation.