162Immaterial errors not to vitiate election

162  Immaterial errors not to vitiate election

 (1) No election is to be avoided on account of any delay in the declaration of nominations, the dispatch of *voting material to *electors, or the giving to the Minister of a notice under subsection 116(2), or on account of the absence or error of or omission by any officer which did not affect the result of the election.

 (2) Where any *elector was, on account of the absence or error of, or omission by, any officer, prevented from voting in any election, the *Court must not, for the purpose of determining whether the absence or error of, or omission by, the officer did or did not affect the result of the election, admit any evidence of the way in which the elector intended to vote in the election.