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ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 102A

102A .         Conjoint elections, appointments and directions for

        (1)         In the case of a conjoint election, every person appointed as a presiding officer, an assistant presiding officer, a poll clerk or a doorkeeper for any polling place in a district shall, without any further appointment or authority than this subsection, be the presiding officer, the assistant presiding officer, poll clerk or doorkeeper, as the case may be, for that polling place in respect of the general election for the Council.

        (2)         The Electoral Commissioner may give such directions as he may consider necessary or expedient to implement the provisions of this Act, for the proper and efficient conduct of any election.

        (3)         Without limiting the generality of subsection (2), the Electoral Commissioner may, for the purpose of assisting an elector on request as provided by section 129, give such directions as he may consider necessary or expedient on and in relation to methods of —

            (a)         conveying details on the ballot paper to the elector without conveying political information other than names or words printed in accordance with section 113C; and

            (b)         translating the voter’s instructions; and

            (c)         eliciting the exact direction of the voter’s preferences.

        [Section 102A inserted: No. 33 of 1964 s. 32; amended: No. 39 of 1979 s. 18; No. 40 of 1987 s. 84; No. 79 of 1987 s. 35; No. 20 of 2021 s. 61.]

[ 103.         Deleted: No. 36 of 2000 s. 75.]



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