New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 89

89 Polling place managers to be furnished with copies of rolls and ballot papers

(1) Before the day of polling the returning officer shall:

(a) provide for use at each polling place sufficient authorised copies of the roll for the district in which the poll is to be taken, and

(b) deliver to each polling place manager, and retain, such numbers, respectively, of the ballot papers as are sufficient for the use of the electors entitled to vote at each booth at which the returning officer and polling place managers, respectively, are to take the poll,

and shall keep an exact count of all those ballot papers.

(1A) The returning officer shall retain for use at his or her office:

(a) at least one printed authorised copy of the roll for his or her district, and

(b) such number of ballot papers as he or she considers will be required for the use of electors who are permitted to vote at his or her office before polling day,

and shall keep an exact count of those ballot papers.

(1B) The ballot papers for a periodic Council election to be delivered or retained pursuant to subsection (1) or (1A) shall be taken from the ballot papers delivered to the returning officer for the district pursuant to section 83A (3).

(2) It is the duty of an election official:

(a) to initial the front of a ballot paper when issued to a voter at the polling booth at which the election official is presiding, and

(3) An "authorised copy of the roll" referred to in subsections (1) and (1A) is a printed or electronic copy of the roll of the electors for the district as at the date of the issue of the writ for the election for which the polling place has been declared to be a polling place, but does not include the names of any elector who will not have attained the age of 18 years on polling day.

(4) A copy of a roll referred to in this section must not contain any particulars relating to a person’s occupation.