Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT - SECT 60

    (1)     A person may apply for postal voting papers for an election if the person:

        (a)     is entitled to vote at the election; and

        (b)     is an eligible person for the election.

    (2)     For subsection (1)(b), a person is an eligible person if the person:

        (a)     throughout polling hours will not be in the Territory or within 20 km of a polling place (other than a mobile polling place at which the person may vote); or;

        (b)     throughout polling hours will be travelling under conditions that preclude voting at a polling place; or

(c)     throughout polling hours will be unable to attend a polling place because of a physical or other disability, illness, advanced pregnancy or another condition of the person; or

        (d)     throughout polling hours will be unable to attend a polling place because of a reasonable fear for, or a reasonable apprehension about, his or her personal wellbeing or safety; or

        (da)     throughout polling hours will be unable to attend a polling place because the person will be at a place (other than a mobile polling place at which the person may vote) caring for another person who has a physical or other disability, illness, advanced pregnancy or another condition; or

        (d)     throughout polling hours will be unable to attend a polling place because the person will be at a place (other than a mobile polling place at which the person may vote) caring for another person who is seriously ill or infirm or who is expected shortly to give birth;

        (e)     because of membership of a religious order or religious beliefs is:

            (i)     precluded from attending a polling place; or

            (ii)     precluded from attending a polling place throughout polling hours or throughout the greater part of those hours; or

        (f)     will be precluded from attending at a polling place because of being a prisoner; or

        (g)     is a person whose address has been suppressed; or

        (h)     throughout polling hours will be engaged in employment or occupation and either of the following apply:

            (i)     the person is not entitled to leave of absence under section 92;

            (ii)     the person's attending a polling place to vote would be likely to cause the person financial loss.