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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 319

Non - compliance with Part does not affect election

  (1)   A failure of a person to comply with a provision of this Part   in relation to an election does not invalidate that election.

  (2)   Without limiting the generality of subsection   (1), where:

  (a)   a political party endorsed a candidate in an election; and

  (b)   the candidate was elected at the election;

any failure by the agent of the political party or by the agent of any State branch of the political party to comply with a provision of this Part   in relation to the election does not invalidate the election of the candidate.

  (3)   Without limiting the generality of subsection   (1), if the agent of a candidate who is elected at an election fails to comply with a provision of this Part   in relation to the election, that failure does not invalidate the election of the candidate.

  (4)   Without limiting the generality of subsection   (1), if the agent of a group, being a group one or more of the members of which is or are elected at an election, fails to comply with a provision of this Part   in relation to the election, that failure does not invalidate the election of the member or members.



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