Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 123

123 .         No other answer or declaration required from elector; who can be excluded from voting

        (1)         No elector shall at any election be required to answer any question or to make any declaration, except as herein provided.

        (2)         No person claiming to vote at any election shall be excluded from voting thereat except by reason of —

            (a)         it appearing to the presiding officer, upon putting the questions hereinbefore prescribed, or any of them —

                  (i)         that he is not the person whose name appears on the roll; or

                  (ii)         that he has previously voted for the whole of State electorate or the district, as the case may be, at the same election; or

                  (iii)         that he is otherwise not entitled to vote under this Act;

                or

            (b)         such person refusing to answer any of such questions, or to make the declaration required under sections 119 and 122.

        [Section 123 amended: No. 40 of 1987 s. 84; No. 20 of 2021 s. 67.]