Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) If:
(a) a mobile polling team is unable to be at a polling place on the dates or during the times specified under section 14(3); or
(b) in the opinion of the Chief Electoral Officer, the exigencies of the referendum require it,
the Chief Electoral Officer or mobile polling team leader may do one or both of the following:
(c) substitute another place for the appointed polling place, except in the case of a mobile polling team to service the voting needs of a class of voters in accordance with an authorisation under section 14(2);
(d) change or vary the specified dates or hours.
(2) The Chief Electoral Officer or a mobile polling team leader must:
(a) give public notice of the substitution under subsection (1)(c) of a polling place or the change or variation under subsection (1)(d) in the specified dates or hours as he or she thinks fit; and
(b) inform the Divisional Returning Officer of the division in which the mobile polling team is authorised to operate of the substitution, change or variation.
(3) A referendum or the result of a referendum is not to be invalidated on the grounds that a mobile polling team failed to attend at a polling place or to attend on the dates or during the hours specified under section 14(3) or at the place or on the dates or hours substituted, changed or varied under this section.