ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 176
Adjournment of voting
ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 176
Adjournment of voting
176 Adjournment of voting
(1) If for any cause a voting centre does not open
or the conduct of an election is interrupted or obstructed at a voting centre,
the Electoral Commissioner may adjourn the conduct of the election at the
voting centre to a later day specified by the Electoral Commissioner.
(2) The
holding of an election must not be adjourned to a day later than the day
before the day named as the return day in the writ for the election.
(3) The
Electoral Commissioner must give public notice of any such adjournment.
(4)
If the conduct of the election at a voting centre has been adjourned, only
those electors who are enrolled for the district within which the
voting centre is situated are entitled to vote at the adjourned voting at the
voting centre.
(5) The provisions of this Act with respect to absent voting
do not apply in the case of an adjournment.
