ELECTORAL ACT 1985 - SECT 18

ELECTORAL ACT 1985 - SECT 18

18—Polling places

        (1)         Each district must have such polling places as the Electoral Commissioner thinks fit.

        (2)         The Electoral Commissioner may, by notice published in the Gazette—

            (a)         appoint such polling places for a district as he or she thinks fit; or

            (b)         abolish a polling place.

        (3)         No polling place may be abolished during an election period unless the Electoral Commissioner is of the opinion that it would be impracticable to take the poll at that polling place.

        (4)         When a writ is issued for an election in a district, the Electoral Commissioner must, between the date of the issue of the writ and polling day, give public notice by advertisement in a newspaper circulating generally throughout the State of the position of all polling places for the district.