Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 184

             (1)  An application must be in writing in the approved form and must contain a declaration by the applicant that he or she is an elector entitled to apply for a postal vote.

             (2)  An application made in Australia shall be made to a DRO.

             (3)  An application made outside Australia shall be made to an Assistant Returning Officer or a DRO.

             (4)  An application for a postal vote may not be made until after the issue of the writ for the election in relation to which a postal vote is sought or the public announcement of the proposed date for the polling, whichever is the earlier.

             (5)  An application for a postal vote fails to meet the deadline if it is not received by the DRO or Assistant Returning Officer to whom it is directed until after 6 pm on the Thursday that is 2 days before polling day in the election.

             (6)  If an application for a postal vote fails to meet the deadline, the DRO or Assistant Returning Officer to whom the application was directed must make, or arrange for the making of, reasonable efforts to advise the applicant that his or her application for a postal vote failed to meet the deadline, and that the applicant will have to vote by other means.