Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Electoral
Commissioner may, by notice in the Government Gazette —
(a)
appoint such polling places for regions and districts as the Electoral
Commissioner considers necessary;
[(b) deleted]
(c)
appoint such other polling places as he thinks fit in any institution or
hospital, or both;
(d)
declare any institution or hospital, or both, so appointed to be a special
institution or hospital, or both, for the purposes of this Act;
(e)
declare any area of the State in which he considers attendance of electors at
a polling place under usual conditions is difficult by reason of remoteness,
to be a remote area for the purposes of this Act;
(f)
abolish any polling place;
(g)
cancel or amend a declaration made under paragraph (d) or (e);
(h)
establish sub-districts and fix the boundaries thereof, and abolish
sub-districts;
(i)
declare, and fix the boundaries of, a polling area for
the purposes of section 193 in relation to each polling place appointed
under paragraph (a);
(j)
cancel a declaration under paragraph (i) or amend boundaries fixed under
that paragraph.
(2) When a
sub-district is established or abolished the Electoral Commissioner may, by
notification in the Government Gazette , give such directions as are thereby
rendered necessary or expedient for the change of electors from one roll to
another roll and effect shall be given forthwith to such directions in the
manner prescribed by such notice.
(3) If a polling place
is appointed under subsection (1) for all regions, or all districts, for
the purposes of a general election, that polling place is referred to as a
general polling place .
(3a) The Electoral
Commissioner may, in relation to a general polling place, perform the
functions of the returning officers for the regions, or districts, under the
provisions listed in the Table to this subsection.
Table of provisions
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section 102 |
section 112(3) |
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section 105(1) |
section 115(1a) |
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section 106(2) |
section 116 |
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section 107(1) |
section 132 |
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section 110 |
section 141(4) |
(3b) References in
this Act to the returning officer may be read as references to the Electoral
Commissioner where necessary for the purposes of subsection (3a).
(4) A polling area
declared under subsection (1)(i) in relation to a polling place shall be
adjacent to the entrance to the polling place and no part of the
boundaries fixed under subsection (1)(i) or (j) shall be more than 100
metres from that entrance.
[Section 100 amended by No. 44 of 1911
s. 29; No. 26 of 1949 s. 4; No. 59 of 1959 s. 9;
No. 39 of 1979 s. 14; No. 40 of 1987 s. 58 and 84;
No. 79 of 1987 s. 33; No. 58 of 1988 s. 5; No. 14 of
1996 s. 4; No. 36 of 2000 s. 50.]