Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An elector who wishes to make a declaration vote may go to an office staffed by an issuing officer no later than 6p.m. on the day before the polling day for the referendum and ask for a ballot paper and declaration envelope from the officer.
(2) The officer must comply with the request.
(3) On being given the ballot paper and declaration envelope, the elector must without delay--
(a) sign the appropriate declaration on the declaration envelope before the issuing officer and have the officer sign the envelope as witness; and
(b) mark a vote on the ballot paper in accordance with section 33; and
(c) place the ballot paper in the envelope and seal the envelope; and
(d) give the envelope to the officer; and
(e) leave the office.
(4) The issuing officer must send the envelope to the appropriate returning officer or put the envelope in a ballot box at the office.
(5) Despite subsection (4), if the elector satisfies the issuing officer that the elector is unable to vote without help, a person chosen by the elector may help the elector, but only in the following ways--
(a) by acting as an interpreter;
(b) by explaining the ballot paper and the requirements of section 33 about its marking;
(c) by marking, or helping the elector to mark, the ballot paper in the way the elector wishes;
(d) by placing the ballot paper in the declaration envelope and sealing the ballot envelope;
(e) by giving the envelope to the officer.
(6) A declaration vote may be made under this section no earlier than the day appointed by the commission by gazette notice.