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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 241

Adjournment of polling

    The Electoral Commissioner may adjourn the polling from day to day in any case where polling is interrupted by:

  (a)   riot or open violence; or

  (b)   the threat of riot or open violence; or

  (c)   storm, tempest, flood or an occurrence of a similar kind; or

  (d)   a health hazard; or

  (e)   a fire or the activation of fire safety equipment (such as sprinklers or alarms); or

  (f)   anything else related to:

  (i)   the safety of voters; or

  (ii)   difficulties in the physical conduct of the voting.


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