New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 21AE

21AE Election officials

(1) The Electoral Commissioner may, by instrument in writing, appoint appropriate persons to be:

(a) returning officers, or

(b) polling place managers, or

(c) election assistants.

(2) An election official is to be appointed for a specified district and for a specified term. The term may be specified by reference to a particular period of time or by reference to a particular Assembly general election (and the concurrent periodic Council election) or a particular by-election.

(3) A person is not qualified for appointment as an election official unless the person is an elector. A person is not ineligible for appointment as an election official for a district merely because the person is not enrolled as an elector on the electoral roll for the district.