Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM AMENDMENT (MODERNISATION AND OTHER MEASURES) ACT 2010 - SCHEDULE 8

Part   1 -- Amendments

Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

1   After paragraph 3 of Schedule   2

Insert:

  3A.   Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the elector will be absent from the Division for which the elector is enrolled.

2   Before paragraph 8 of Schedule   2

Insert:

  7A.   The elector will be unable to attend a polling booth on polling day because of a reasonable fear for, or a reasonable apprehension about, his or her personal wellbeing or safety.

Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

3   After paragraph 3 of Schedule   3

Insert:

  3A.   Throughout the hours of voting on voting day, the elector will be absent from the Division for which the elector is enrolled.

4   Before paragraph 8 of Schedule   3

Insert:

  7A.   The elector will be unable to attend a polling booth on voting day because of a reasonable fear for, or a reasonable apprehension about, his or her personal wellbeing or safety.

Part   2 -- Application of amendments

5   Application of amendments

The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to elections and referendums the writs for which are issued on or after the commencement of the amendments.