Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The following acts
are, on polling day, and on all days to which the polling is adjourned,
prohibited in a polling place or within 6 metres from the entrance thereto,
namely —
(a)
canvassing for votes; or
(b)
soliciting the vote of any elector; or
(c)
inducing any elector not to vote for any particular candidate; or
(d)
inducing any elector not to vote at the election.
(2) Subject to
subsection (3), where a polling place has been appointed by the Electoral
Commissioner under the provisions of section 100, at any institution or
hospital, the acts referred to in subsection (1) are, at all times, prohibited
in the institution or hospital, in the grounds thereof, or within 6 metres
from the entrance to the institution or hospital or from the entrance to the
grounds thereof, whichever entrance is the furthest distance away from the
institution or hospital itself.
(3) Literature
relating to political parties may be left at the general office of an
institution or hospital referred to in subsection (2) so that such literature
may be available on request by any elector who is for the time being resident
in the institution or hospital wherein the polling place is appointed to be by
reason of illness or infirmity or in the case of a woman, by reason of
approaching maternity.
(3a) A scrutineer
accompanying a mobile portable ballot box under section 100A or 100B may
distribute to persons recording their votes at the mobile portable ballot box
literature (which may be, or include, “how-to-vote” cards) that
suggests a manner in which ballot papers might be marked.
[Section 192 amended: No. 63 of 1948 s. 28; No. 59
of 1959 s. 14; No. 94 of 1972 s. 4; No. 39 of 1979 s. 28; No. 40 of 1987
s. 81; No. 79 of 1987 s. 74; No. 64 of 2006 s. 48.]