New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 21AJ

21AJ Postal voting officers and deputy postal voting officers

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

(a) postal voting officers, or

(b) deputy postal voting officers,

at a place outside New South Wales (whether overseas or in Australia), for the purposes of all elections.

(2) A deputy postal voting officer may act as, and is taken to be, the postal voting officer during the illness or absence of the postal voting officer or during a vacancy in the office of the postal voting officer.

(3) This section does not prevent the appointment of a person as a postal voting officer to fill a vacancy in that office.