New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 151J

151J Application of provisions to grounds of polling place

(1) If:

(a) a building used as a polling place is situated in grounds within an enclosure, and

(b) the appointment under section 84 of the polling place does not indicate whether or not the grounds are part of the polling place,

the grounds are not, but the building is, taken to be part of the polling place for the purposes of sections 151D, 151H and 151I.

(2) However, those grounds are taken to be part of the polling place for the purposes of those sections if the returning officer, with the concurrence of the Electoral Commissioner, causes to be displayed throughout the hours of polling at each entrance to those grounds a notice signed by the returning officer stating that those grounds are treated as part of the polling place.