New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS ACT 1983 - SECT 127

127 Immaterial errors not to invalidate election

(1) An election of councillors of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, or any return or statement showing the voting in an election, is not invalid because of--

(a) any delay in taking the votes of the electors or in making any statement or return, or

(b) the absence of any officer, or

(c) the error or omission of any officer,

that could not have affected the result of the election.

(2) If a person was prevented from voting in an election because of the absence of any officer, or the error or omission of any officer, the Court must not admit any evidence of the way the person intended to vote in order to determine whether or not the absence, error or omission could have affected the result of the election.