Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 229

             (1)  The presiding officer shall put the following questions to each person attending before the presiding officer and claiming to vote in an election or elections:

                     (a)  What is your full name?

                     (b)  Where do you live?

                     (c)  Have you voted before in this election? or Have you voted before in these elections? (as the case requires).

             (2)  In addition to the questions put under subsection (1), the presiding officer shall ask each person claiming to vote as an absent voter in an election to identify the Division for which the person is enrolled.

             (4)  If the answers a person (the claimant ) claiming to vote gives to the questions in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) do not satisfy the presiding officer that the claimant is a particular person on the certified list of voters or an approved list of voters for the relevant Division, the officer may ask the claimant one or more other questions about matters shown on the list for the particular person, to establish whether the claimant is that particular person.

             (5)  Subject to section 235, if a person claiming to vote to whom questions are put under this section:

                     (a)  refuses to answer fully any question so put; or

                     (c)  answers a question specified in paragraph (1)(c) in the affirmative;

the person's claim to vote shall be rejected.