Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) No candidate shall
in any way take part in the conduct of an election; and no one, other than the
Electoral Commissioner or an officer deputed by him, presiding officer,
assistant presiding officer, the poll clerks, doorkeepers, scrutineers, and
any member of the Police Force on duty at a polling place, and the electors
voting or about to vote, and any person nominated under section 129(1) to mark
an elector’s ballot paper according to the directions of the elector,
shall be permitted to enter or remain in the polling place during the polling.
(1a) A presiding
officer, assistant presiding officer, poll clerk, doorkeeper or scrutineer in
a polling place shall wear or display such identification as is provided or
required by the returning officer.
(2) Where an election
is conducted on the same day as a referendum the reference in subsection (1)
to scrutineers shall be deemed to include a reference to scrutineers (if any)
appointed under any Act for the purposes of the referendum.
[Section 115 amended: No. 68 of 1964 s. 23; No. 54
of 1983 s. 10; No. 40 of 1987 s. 84; No. 79 of 1987 s. 44; No. 35 of 2012
s. 22.]