Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1988 No. 81, 1988 - SECT 4

4. Section 89 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (5) and
substituting the following subsections:

"(4A) The registered officer of a registered political party may appoint
persons to act as scrutineers during the scrutiny at each counting centre, but
the number of scrutineers for each party shall not exceed the number of
officers who are engaged in the scrutiny at each counting centre.

"(5) In this section:
'counting centre' means any premises at which a scrutiny or counting of
ballot-papers for a referendum is to be, or is being, conducted;
'registered officer', in relation to a registered political party, has the
same meaning as the expression has in Part XIV of the Commonwealth Electoral 
Act 1918 by virtue of section 4C of that Act;
'registered political party' has the same meaning as in the Commonwealth 
Electoral Act 1918 .".