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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 186

Dispatch of postal voting papers to registered general postal voters

  (1)   As soon as ballot papers for an election for a Division are available, the Electoral Commissioner must send or arrange for the delivery of postal voting papers to each registered general postal voter for the Division.

  (2)   In this section:

"postal voting papers" means:

  (a)   a postal vote certificate printed on an envelope; and

  (b)   one postal ballot paper for a Senate election or one postal ballot paper for a House of Representatives election, or both, as the case requires; and

  (c)   if the envelope on which the postal vote certificate is printed is not itself addressed to the DRO for the Division for which the general postal voter is registered--an envelope addressed to that DRO.


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