Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts Where a referendum is
held or to be held on the same day as an election —
(a) an
application for an early ballot paper or for permission to vote as an absent
voter under section 99A of the Electoral Act 1907 or as a
provisional voter under section 119(4a), 122(2) or 122A of that Act shall
be deemed to include a corresponding application in respect of the referendum
and any reference in the application to the election shall be deemed to
include a reference to the referendum;
(b) a
declaration that enables an elector to vote under any provision of the
Electoral Act 1907 at the election enables him to vote under that
provision at the referendum and any reference in the declaration to the
election shall be deemed to include a reference to the referendum;
(c)
subject to paragraph (d) a determination of entitlement to vote at the
election determines the entitlement to vote at the referendum;
(d) the
answers by a person claiming to vote to the questions put to him pursuant to
section 119 of the Electoral Act 1907 may be accepted as sufficient
to enable him to vote at the referendum, if they are satisfactory as regards
the election, but the presiding officer may if he thinks fit, in addition to
the questions prescribed by that section, put to the person the following
question:
“
Have you already voted
here or elsewhere at this referendum? ( or these referendums? as the case may
be ).
”
and, if the person
does not answer the question or admits that he has already voted at the
referendum or referendums, shall refuse to allow him to vote;
(e) the
same ballot boxes and polling booths may be used for the purposes of the
referendum but in that case the ballot papers for the referendum shall be of a
different colour to the colour of the ballot papers for the election;
(f) a
ballot paper used at the referendum shall, if it is required to be placed in
an envelope by a voter, be placed in the same envelope as the ballot paper
used at the election;
(g) the
copies of the rolls supplied to the Returning Officer and delivered to
presiding officers for the purposes of the election pursuant to
section 112 of the Electoral Act 1907 shall be used for the purposes
of the referendum; and
(h)
appointments made under any provision of the Electoral Act 1907 for the
purposes of the election shall have effect under that provision for the
purposes of the referendum.
[Section 19 amended by No. 79 of 1987
s.80; No. 36 of 2000 s. 49(2).]