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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 365A

Election not affected by failure of delivery arrangement

  (1)   This section applies if a DRO or Assistant Returning Officer, under section   188, arranges for delivery of a certificate and ballot paper instead of posting them.

  (2)   The Court of Disputed Returns must not:

  (a)   declare that a person returned as elected was not duly elected; or

  (b)   declare an election void;

on the ground of a failure of the arrangement for delivery.

  (3)   This section is not intended to imply anything about the effect of a failed delivery by post.


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