New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS REGULATION 2002 - REG 25AA

25AA Assistance to certain electors

(1) If an elector satisfies the returning officer that:

(a) his or her sight is so impaired, or

(b) he or she is so physically incapacitated, or

(c) he or she is so illiterate,

that the elector is unable to vote without assistance, the returning officer is to permit a person appointed by the elector to mark the ballot-paper of the elector according to the instruction of the elector.

(2) If any such elector fails to appoint a person under subclause (1), the returning officer must, in the presence of:

(a) such scrutineers as choose to be present, or

(b) if there are no scrutineers present, in the presence of such person as the elector may appoint,

mark the ballot-paper according to the instruction of the elector.

(3) The instruction of a person under this clause may be given by handing to the person marking the ballot-paper a “how-to-vote” card or a printed or written statement indicating the candidate for whom the elector desires to vote.