New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 114ZQB

114ZQB Procedure for voting at declared institutions-voting in elector’s district

(1) This section applies to voting by an elector under this Division where the elector is enrolled for the district in which the declared institution is situated.

(2) Division 8 (other than sections 95-98, 106, (2A) and (2B) and 109) extends to voting to which this section applies subject to the following modifications:

(a) references to polling places are taken to be references to declared institutions,

(b) references to polling place managers and election officials are taken to be references to pre-poll voting officers at the declared institution.

(3) Section 114ZR (6A) and (6B) extend to voting under this section.

(4) The Electoral Commissioner is to ensure that each returning officer is provided with sufficient authorised copies of the roll for the district in which a declared institution is situated for the purposes of this section.

(5) The pre-poll voting officers assigned under section 114ZO to take the poll at a declared institution must ensure the security of any ballot boxes used for the purposes of this section.

(6) As soon as practicable after the completion of voting at a declared institution, the pre-poll voting officers assigned under section 114ZO to take the poll at the institution must, in the presence of any other election official assisting the officers and any scrutineers who are present:

(a) publicly close, fasten, seal and take charge of the ballot box used by the officers for the purposes of this section, and

(b) with the least possible delay, forward it for the purposes of scrutiny to the returning officer for the district in which the declared institution is situated.

(7) At the scrutiny the returning officer is to:

(a) produce any ballot boxes that have been delivered to him or her in accordance with subsection (6), and

(b) remove the ballot papers from the ballot boxes, and

(c) open those ballot papers and count those that are formal.

(8) Without affecting subsection (2), the provisions of this section apply in addition to, and without derogation from, the application of any other provision of this Act. However, any such other provision applies with any necessary modifications.