ELECTORAL ACT 2002 - SECT 163 Notice to electors who have not voted

ELECTORAL ACT 2002 - SECT 163

    (1)     Subject to subsection (3), within 6 months after an election, the Commission must send by post to each elector whose name appears on the list prepared under section 162 at the elector's latest known address, a notice in the prescribed form—

        (a)     notifying the elector that the elector has failed to vote at the election; and

        (b)     requiring the elector to state the true reason for failing to vote.

    (2)     The notice must specify—

        (a)     the full name of the elector as appearing on the list; and

        (b)     the elector's latest known address; and

        (c)     the address in respect of which the elector was enrolled; and

        (d)     a date (not being less than 21 days after the date of the posting of the notice) before or on which the form forwarded with the notice completed and signed by the elector is to be received by the Commission.

    (3)     Subsection (1) does not apply if the Commission is satisfied that an elector—

        (a)     is dead; or

        (b)     was absent from Victoria on election day; or

        (c)     was ineligible to vote at the election; or

        (d)     was issued with a ballot-paper for the purpose of voting; or

        (e)     was an itinerant elector, eligible overseas elector or Antarctic elector; or

        (f)     was notified under section 104(2); or

        (g)     had a valid and sufficient excuse for not voting.