Northern Territory Consolidated ActsIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"assistant officer" means a person appointed as an assistant officer under section 16(1)(c) or (2).
Assistant Returning Officer has the same meaning as in the Northern Territory Electoral Act .
"ballot-paper" includes a postal ballot-paper.
"certified list of voters" means a list referred to in section 18.
Chief Electoral Officer has the same meaning as in the Northern Territory Electoral Act .
"division" has the same meaning as in the Northern Territory Electoral Act .
"elector" means a person whose name is on a roll.
"enrolled", in relation to a person, means the person's name is on a roll.
"hours of polling" means:
(a) in relation to a place other than a place at which a mobile polling team is used – from 8.00 a.m. until 6.00 p.m. on polling day; and
(b) in relation to a place at which a mobile polling team is used – the hours during which the mobile polling team may conduct polling at that place.
"Master" means the Master of the Supreme Court.
"mobile polling team" means a mobile polling team authorised under section 14.
"mobile polling team leader" means a mobile polling team leader appointed under section 16(1)(b).
"officer" means the Chief Electoral Officer, a Divisional Returning Officer, an Assistant Returning Officer, a presiding officer and an assistant officer.
"petition" means a petition referred to in section 62(1).
"polling day" means the date fixed by a writ for a referendum as polling day for the referendum.
"polling place" means a polling place appointed under section 13(1) and includes:
(a) the area adjacent to a polling place designated by a notice erected by the presiding officer of the polling place; and
(b) the area designated by a notice erected by a mobile polling team leader,
during the period the notice is displayed.
"presiding officer" means a presiding officer of a polling place appointed under section 16(1)(a), and includes a deputy presiding officer appointed under that section while presiding at the polling place and a mobile polling team leader.
"referendum" means the taking of the vote of electors on the question the subject of a writ for a referendum.
"referendum advertisement" means anything able or intended:
(a) to influence an elector in relation to voting at a referendum; or
(b) to affect the result of a referendum.
"roll" means a roll of electors kept under the Northern Territory Electoral Act .
"scrutineer" means a person appointed under section 17.
"Tribunal" means the Referendum Tribunal established by section 61(1).
"writ for a referendum" means a writ for a referendum issued under this Act.