South Australian Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (ELECTIONS) ACT 1999 - SECT 11

11—Appointment of other electoral officers

        (1)         The returning officer may engage electoral officers to assist in the conduct of an election or poll.

        (2)         A deputy returning officer may, with the approval of the returning officer, engage electoral officers to assist in the conduct of an election or poll.

        (3)         No member of a council, or candidate for election as a member of a council, may be engaged as an electoral officer for that council.

        (4)         The returning officer or a deputy returning officer may, by instrument in writing, delegate to an electoral officer powers or functions under this Act.

        (5)         A delegation under subsection (4)—

            (a)         is subject to conditions and limitations specified in the instrument of delegation; and

            (b)         does not prevent the returning officer or a deputy returning officer from acting in a matter; and

            (c)         is revocable at will.

        (6)         In any legal proceedings, an apparently genuine document purporting to be a certificate signed by the returning officer or a deputy returning officer containing particulars of a delegation under this section will, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be accepted as proof of those particulars.