Queensland Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 31

31 Returning officers

(1) The commission may appoint an elector as the returning officer for an electoral district.

(2) A person must not be appointed as a returning officer if the person is—

(a) a minor; or

(b) a member of a political party.

(3) Without limiting the powers of the commission to terminate the appointment of returning officers, the commission must terminate the appointment of a returning officer if the returning officer becomes a member of a political party.

(4) A returning officer must act in accordance with any directions given by the commission.

(5) A returning officer’s membership of a political party, or failure to comply with section 32A , does not invalidate—

(a) anything done by the returning officer while the returning officer is a member of a political party; or

(b) if the returning officer does a thing for an election while the returning officer is a member of a political party—the election.