Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 365A

             (1)  This section applies if a DRO or Assistant Returning Officer, under section 188, arranges for delivery of a certificate and ballot paper instead of posting them.

             (2)  The Court of Disputed Returns must not:

                     (a)  declare that a person returned as elected was not duly elected; or

                     (b)  declare an election void;

on the ground of a failure of the arrangement for delivery.

             (3)  This section is not intended to imply anything about the effect of a failed delivery by post.