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ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 6 Circumstances in which elector deemed to be "unable to attend at a voting centre on election day"

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 6

Circumstances in which elector deemed to be "unable to attend at a voting centre on election day"

6 Circumstances in which elector deemed to be "unable to attend at a voting centre on election day"

For the purposes of this Act, and without limitation, an elector is
"unable to attend at a voting centre on election day" if the person--

(a) is not throughout the hours of voting on election day within New South Wales, or
(b) is not throughout the hours of voting on election day within 8 kilometres by the nearest practicable route of any voting centre open for the purposes of an election, or
(c) is throughout the hours of voting on election day travelling under conditions that will preclude the person from voting at any voting centre, or
(d) is seriously ill or infirm, and by reason of such illness or infirmity will be precluded from attending at any voting centre to vote, or
(e) in the case of a woman, will, by approaching maternity, be precluded from attending at any voting centre to vote, or
(f) is, at a place other than a hospital, caring for a person who is seriously ill or infirm or approaching maternity and by reason of caring for the person will be precluded from attending at any voting centre to vote, or
(g) is, by reason of the person's membership of a religious order or his or her religious beliefs--
(i) precluded from attending at a voting centre, or
(ii) precluded from voting throughout the hours of voting on election day or throughout the greater part of those hours, or
(h) is, by reason of his or her being kept in a correctional centre (within the meaning of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 ), precluded from attending at any voting centre to vote, or
(i) will, by reason of being engaged for fee, gain or reward in any work throughout the hours of voting on election day, be precluded from attending at any voting centre to vote, or
(j) is a silent elector, or
(k) is a person with a disability (within the meaning of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 ), or
(l) believes that attending a voting centre on election day will place the personal safety of the person or of members of the person's family at risk.