Torres Strait Regional Authority Election Rules 1996

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Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

This item is authorised by the following title:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005

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F2007C00324

15 December 2003 - 12 February 2008

Table of contents

1 Name of Rules [see Note 1]
2 Interpretation
2A Torres Strait area divided into wards
3 Electoral Commissioner may give directions
4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander liaison officers
5 Liaison officer to be present during polling
6 Qualifications of person nominated
7 Manner of nomination
8 To whom nominations made
9 Requirements for nomination
10 Form of consent to act
11 Rejection of nomination
12 Place of nomination
13 Day of nomination
14 Hour of nomination
15 Declaration of nominations
16 Withdrawal of consent to nomination
17 Where poll to be held
18 Death of candidate after nomination
19 Failure of election
20 Persons not to vote more than once
21 Photographs of candidates
22 Undertaking by officers and scrutineers
23 Ballot-boxes to be securely fastened
24 Official mark
25 Grounds for applying for postal vote
26 Application for postal vote
27 Duty of an authorised witness
28 Issue of postal voter cards and ballot-papers
29 Inspection of applications
30 Form of postal voter cards
31 Postal voting
32 Unauthorised interference
33 Procedure for dealing with postal voter cards etc
34 Opening postal ballot-papers
35 Failure to post or deliver postal vote application or ballot-paper
36 Inducing elector to hand over marked ballot-paper
36A Commencement of preliminary scrutiny of postal votes
37 Conduct of preliminary scrutiny of postal votes
38 Mistakes
39 Correction of formal errors
39A Further investigation of postal votes by a regional panel
40 Grounds for applying for pre-poll vote
41 Pre-polling voting officers
42 Applying for a pre-poll vote
43 Place and time for applying
44 Pre-poll voting
45 Form of pre-poll voter card
46 Record of issue of pre-poll voting papers
47 Opening of pre-poll voting envelope
48 Obligations of persons present when pre-poll vote is cast
49 Mistakes
50 Correction of formal errors
50A Further investigation of pre-poll votes by a regional panel
51 Arrangements for polling
52 Substitute
53 Use of licensed premises as polling booth
54 Separate voting compartments
55 Ballot-boxes
56 Ballot-papers
57 Printing of ballot-papers
58 Determination of order on ballot-papers
59 Ballot-papers to be initialled
60 Scrutineers at the polling
61 Provisions relating to scrutineers
62 Persons present at polling
63 Polling
64 Where electors may vote
65 Interpretation
66 Mobile booths — hospitals
67 Provisions related to rule 66
68 Mobile booths — prisons
69 Mobile booths
70 Forwarding of votes
71 Questions to ask voter
72 Completion of voter card
73 Objection by scrutineer
74 Voter record
75 Voting procedure
76 Function of liaison officers
77 Review by regional panel
78 Elector to quit booth
79 Assisting certain voters
80 Spoilt ballot-papers
81 Marking of votes
82 Adjournment of polling
83 Adjournment in other cases
84 Voting at adjourned polling
85 When elections held in some wards only
86 Scrutiny
87 Scrutineers
88 Conduct of scrutiny
89 Scrutiny of votes
89A Computerised scrutiny of votes
89B Combination of manual and computer scrutiny permitted
90 Scrutiny of postal and pre-poll ballot-papers
91 Action on objections to ballot-papers
92 Officers not to mark ballot-papers so that voter can be identified
93 Counting of votes
94 Exhaustion of ballot paper
95 Re-count at elections
96 Recount
96A Sending ballot-papers electronically
97 Powers of officer conducting recount
98 Reservation of disputed ballot-papers
99 Declaration of Poll
100 Correction of errors
101 Extension of time
102 Interpretation
103 Officers and scrutineers to observe secrecy
104 Bribery
105 Interference with political liberty
107 Officers not to influence vote
108 Printing and publication of electoral advertisements, notices etc
109 Misleading or deceptive publications etc
110 False statements about enrolment
111 Heading to electoral advertisements
112 Authors of reports etc. to be identified
113 Cards in polling booth
114 Signature to electoral paper
115 Witnessing electoral papers
116 False certification
117 Unlawfully marking ballot-papers
118 Other offences relating to ballot-papers etc
119 Prohibition of canvassing near polling booths
120 Badges or emblems in polling booths
121 Forging or uttering electoral papers
122 Protection of the official mark
123 Misconduct in polling booth
124 Re-entry after removal from booth
125 Defamation of candidate
126 Publication of matter regarding candidates
127 Further elections
128 Advice to electors not entitled to vote in respect of a ward
129 Extension of time for acts by officers
130 Proof of posting
131 Preservation of ballot-papers
132 Responsibility for preservation of documents
133 Authorised official inquiry
134 Collection of statistical information
135 Delegation
- Schedule Grounds on which to apply for postal or pre-poll vote
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Torres Strait Regional Authority Election Rules 1996