Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A voting officer must put to each person attending before the voting officer, and claiming to vote in a referendum or referendums (as the case requires), questions in order to ascertain:
(a) the person's full name; and
(b) the person's place of living; and
(c) whether the person has voted before in the referendum or referendums (as the case requires).
(2) If the answers the voter gives to the questions under subsection (1) do not satisfy the voting officer that the applicant is a particular person on a copy of the certified list of voters, or on an approved list of voters, for a particular Division, the officer may ask the voter one or more other questions about matters shown on the list for the particular person, to establish whether the voter is that particular person.
If election is held on same day
(3) If the voting day for a referendum is the same as that fixed for the polling at an election, the answers by the voter under section 200DI of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 for the purposes of the election may, if they are satisfactory as regards the election, be accepted as sufficient to enable the person to vote at the referendum.
(4) If the voting officer accepts, pursuant to subsection (3), the answers by the voter to the questions referred to in that subsection as sufficient to enable the person to vote at a referendum, the officer may, if he or she thinks fit, put to the voter questions in order to ascertain whether the person has voted before in the referendum or referendums (as the case requires).