Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 - SECT 59

    Where the voting day for a referendum is the same as the polling day for an election:

  (a)   an application for a postal vote in the election shall also have effect as an application for a postal vote in the referendum;

  (b)   section   58 does not apply for the purposes of the referendum;

  (c)   a person who is entitled to receive a postal ballot paper under section   186 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 for the purposes of the election is also entitled to receive, in the same manner, a postal ballot paper for the purposes of the referendum;

  (d)   a postal vote certificate for the purposes of the election also has effect as a postal vote certificate for the purposes of the referendum;

  (e)   a reference in an application or certificate to the election shall be regarded as including a reference to the referendum; and

  (f)   a ballot paper bearing the postal vote of an elector in the referendum may be enclosed in the same envelope as the postal ballot paper bearing the elector's postal vote in the election.