Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 - SECT 31

             (1)  Where the voting day for a referendum is the same as that fixed for the polling at an election, the answers by a person claiming to vote at the referendum to the questions put under section 229 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 for the purposes of the election may, if they are satisfactory as regards the election, be accepted as sufficient to enable the person to vote at the referendum.

             (2)  Where a presiding officer accepts, pursuant to subsection (1), the answers by a person to the questions referred to in that subsection as sufficient to enable the person to vote at a referendum, the presiding officer may, if he or she thinks fit, put to the person claiming to vote the following question, namely, Have you already voted, either here or elsewhere, at this referendum (or these referendums, as the case requires)?

             (3)  If a person claiming to vote at a referendum when the question referred to in subsection (2) is put does not answer the question or answers that question in the affirmative, the person's claim to vote shall be rejected.