Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 124

124 .         Right to vote despite error in roll or change of name on marriage

        (1)         No omission from the roll of any name other than the surname, or entry of a wrong name other than the surname, and no misspelling of any name, shall warrant the rejection at any polling of any claim to vote, if the elector is sufficiently identified in the opinion of the presiding officer.

        (2)         No elector shall be disqualified from voting under the surname appearing on the roll by reason of having become entitled to use another surname.

        [Section 124 amended: No. 79 of 1987 s. 50.]