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ELECTORAL ACT 2004 (NO. 51 OF 2004) - SECT 124 Adjournment of polling

ELECTORAL ACT 2004 (NO. 51 OF 2004) - SECT 124

Adjournment of polling

(1)  The Commissioner may adjourn the polling at a polling place on polling day if for any reason it is not practicable to proceed.
(2)  If polling is adjourned and the Commission believes that it is not reasonably practicable for an elector affected by the adjournment to cast a vote at another polling place, the Commission is to –
(a) arrange for the adjourned polling to resume as soon as practicable but no later than 21 days after polling day; and
(b) fix a place at which and the hours during which the adjourned polling is to occur; and
(c) as soon as practicable publish, in at least one newspaper approved for the purpose and circulating generally in the division, a notice of the arrangements for the adjourned polling including the place and hours fixed under paragraph (b) .
(3)  Where polling at a polling place in a division has been adjourned, only an elector who was entitled to vote on polling day at the election in that division and who has not already voted is entitled to vote at the adjourned polling.
(4)  In this Act, where appropriate, a reference to polling day for an election is taken to include a day on which adjourned polling occurs.