South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this Act,
unless the contrary intention appears—
"abbreviation", in relation to the name of a political party, includes an
alternative name of the party;
"authorised witness" means a person (not being a candidate in an election) who
is over, or apparently over, the age of 18 years;
"bribery" means an offence against section 109;
"counting centre" means premises at which the scrutiny of ballot papers is
being, or is to be, conducted;
"declaration ballot paper" means the ballot paper of a voter who makes a
declaration vote;
"declaration voting papers", in relation to an election, means—
(a) the
ballot paper for the election; and
(b) an
envelope endorsed with a declaration to be made by the voter;
"election period", in relation to an election, means the period commencing on
the issue of the writ for the election and expiring at 6 p.m. on polling day;
"elector" means a person whose name appears on a roll as an elector (not being
a person under the age of 18 years who is provisionally enrolled) and includes
a person whose name should appear on a roll as an elector but has been, by
error, omitted from the roll;
"electoral advertisement" means an advertisement containing electoral matter;
"the Electoral Commissioner" means the person for the time being holding, or
acting in, the office of the Electoral Commissioner under this Act;
"electoral district" or "district" means—
(a) in
relation to a Legislative Council election—the whole of the State;
(b) in
relation to a House of Assembly election—a district for the return of a
member of the House of Assembly;
"electoral matter" means matter calculated to affect the result of an
election;
"electoral paper" means any document or form for use under this Act;
"electoral roll" or "roll" means an electoral roll kept under this Act;
"electoral visitor" means an electoral visitor appointed by the
Electoral Commissioner;
"general election" means a general election of members of the House of
Assembly;
"the hour of nomination" means 12 noon on the day fixed by a writ for the
nomination;
"how-to-vote card" means a card, in the form of a ballot paper, indicating the
manner in which a particular candidate or group of candidates suggests that a
vote should be recorded by a voter;
"institution" means—
(a) a
hospital; or
(b) a
convalescent home; or
(c) a
nursing home; or
(d) a
home for the aged; or
(e) a
hostel for the aged or infirm; or
(f) a
prison or other place of confinement; or
(g) an
institution of a prescribed kind,
or any part of an institution as defined above;
"name", of a candidate for election, includes a name by which the candidate is
generally known;
"officer" means a person appointed to an office under this Act or assisting
the Electoral Commissioner in the administration of this Act or engaged by
the Electoral Commissioner under this Act;
"ordinary vote" means a vote that is not a declaration vote;
"organisation" means an incorporated or unincorporated association, group or
organisation (including an association, group or organisation that constitutes
a branch or division of a larger association, group or organisation);
"political party" means an organisation of which an object or activity is the
promotion of the election to the House of Assembly or the Legislative Council
of a candidate or candidates endorsed by it;
"polling booth" means a building, structure, vehicle or enclosure or part of a
building, structure, vehicle or enclosure, for taking votes at an election;
"polling place" means a place appointed as a polling place under this Act;
"registered name", in relation to a registered political party, means the name
of the party, or an abbreviation of the name of the party, entered in the
Register of Political Parties under Part 6;
"registered officer", in relation to a registered political party, means the
person shown on the Register of Political Parties as the registered officer of
that party and includes a person nominated by that registered officer as his
or her deputy;
"registered political party" means a political party registered under Part 6;
"registered voting ticket" means a voting ticket lodged under section 63;
"Register of Political Parties" means the register of political parties kept
under Part 6;
"remote subdivision" means a subdivision declared by the
Electoral Commissioner under section 15 to be a remote subdivision;
"returning officer" includes an assistant returning officer;
"scrutiny" of ballot papers includes the counting of the votes recorded on
ballot papers;
"subdivision" means a subdivision of a district and, in relation to a district
that is not divided into subdivisions, means the whole of the district;
"to publish" includes to authorise, cause or permit to be published;
"undue influence" means an offence against section 110;
"voting papers", in relation to an election, means any ballot paper or
declaration voting papers required by an elector for the purpose of voting at
the election;
"voting ticket" means a written statement of a particular order in which a
voter might allocate preferences in an election, being a statement for use
under this Act in interpreting the votes of voters who—
(a) in
relation to a Legislative Council election—choose to vote in accordance
with the voting ticket;
(b) in
relation to a House of Assembly election—do not indicate an order of
preference covering all candidates;
"voting ticket square" means a square printed on a ballot paper for a
Legislative Council election for use by voters who choose to vote in
accordance with a voting ticket or voting tickets that have been registered
under this Act in relation to a candidate or group;
"writ" means a writ for an election.
(2) For the purposes
of this Act, an organisation endorses a candidate in an election if a part of
the organisation, or some other organisation of which the organisation is
part, endorses the candidate in the election.