Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 200D

             (1)  An application to a DRO shall be made at the office of the DRO during ordinary office hours or during the hours of polling on polling day.

             (2)  An application to a pre-poll voting officer must be made:

                     (a)  at a pre-poll voting office; and

                     (b)  on a day, and during the hours, specified in the declaration made under subsection 200BA(1) for making such applications at that office.

             (3)  An application to an Assistant Returning Officer shall be made:

                     (a)  at the office of the Assistant Returning Officer; and

                     (b)  during ordinary office hours or during such other hours as the Assistant Returning Officer fixes.

Note:          Pre-poll voting at the office of an Assistant Returning Officer outside Australia must be by pre-poll declaration vote. Voting by pre-poll ordinary vote is not available at such offices (see section 200DD).

             (4)  An application that relates to:

                     (a)  a Senate election; or

                     (b)  a Senate election and a House of Representatives election to be held on the same day;

cannot be made earlier than the second day after the day on which nominations for the Senate election are declared under subsection 176(1).

             (5)  An application that relates to a House of Representatives election that is not to be held on the same day as a Senate election cannot be made earlier than the day after the day on which nominations for the election are declared under subsection 176(2).

             (6)  An elector may not make an application after the close of the poll in the State or Territory in which the elector is making the application.