Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

REFERENDUMS ACT - SECT 2

In 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.