Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsSubject to section 357, every petition disputing an election or return in this Part called the petition shall:
(a) set out the facts relied on to invalidate the election or return;
(aa) subject to subsection 358(2), set out those facts with sufficient particularity to identify the specific matter or matters on which the petitioner relies as justifying the grant of relief;
(b) contain a prayer asking for the relief the petitioner claims to be entitled to;
(c) be signed by a candidate at the election in dispute or by a person who was qualified to vote thereat, or, in the case of the choice or the appointment of a person to hold the place of a Senator under section 15 of the Constitution or section 44 of this Act, by a person qualified to vote at Senate elections in the relevant State or Territory at the date of the choice or appointment;
(d) be attested by 2 witnesses whose occupations and addresses are stated;
(e) be filed in the Registry of the High Court within 40 days after:
(i) if the polling day for the election in dispute is not the polling day for any other election--the return of the writ for the election; or
(ii) if the polling day for the election in dispute is also the polling day for another election or other elections--the return of whichever of the writs for the election in dispute and that other election or those other elections is returned last; or
(iii) if the choice or the appointment of a person to hold the place of a Senator under section 15 of the Constitution is in dispute--the notification of that choice or appointment.