New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 87

87 Polling place-arrangements

(1) The returning officer must assign a polling place manager to preside at each polling place.

(2) The returning officer or polling place manager must assign at least one election assistant to assist in taking the poll at a polling place.

(3) If the returning officer’s instrument of appointment or another instrument issued by the Electoral Commissioner authorises him or her to do so, the returning officer may act as the polling place manager at a polling place, in which case the returning officer is taken to be a polling place manager duly assigned to preside at the polling place.

(4) Assignments under this section must be made in writing.

(5) The functions of polling place managers and election assistants are to be as determined by the returning officer, subject to this Act and any directions of the Electoral Commissioner.

(6) The functions of election assistants are to be as determined by the polling place manager, subject to this Act and any directions of the Electoral Commissioner.