Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 130

130 .         Ballot paper spoiled by elector, replacement of etc.

        (1)         If any elector satisfies the presiding officer, before his ballot paper is deposited in the ballot box that he has spoilt it by mistake or accident, he may, on giving it up, receive a new ballot paper from the presiding officer, who shall there and then cancel the spoilt ballot paper by writing “spoilt” on the back of it.

        (2)         Having cancelled a spoilt ballot paper the presiding officer is to —

            (a)         place the ballot paper in an envelope, seal the envelope and write on the envelope an indication of the type of ballot paper enclosed and that it is spoilt; and

            (b)         sign the envelope.

        (3)         The envelopes containing spoilt ballot papers cancelled at a polling place are to be sealed up in a packet that is to be given to the returning officer after the close of the poll.

        [Section 130 amended: No. 59 of 1919 s. 5; No. 36 of 2000 s. 78.]