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Electoral Act 2017
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#### 118A Mobile voting centres at other places
118A Mobile voting centres at other places
> > (1) The Electoral Commissioner—
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> > > (a) may determine the places, other than declared facilities, that an election official will visit for the purpose of enabling electors to vote in an election in accordance with this section (mobile voting centres), and
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> > > (b) must give notice to the public on the Electoral Commission’s website of—
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> > > > (i) the places determined under paragraph (a), and
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> > > > (ii) the days and times when the election official will visit for the purposes of this section.
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> > (2) A mobile voting centre is taken to be an early voting centre while voting is occurring at the mobile voting centre.
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> > (3) A failure by an election official to make a visit in accordance with this section does not invalidate the result of the election.
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> > (4) On a visit—
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> > > (a) the election official must take the ballot box provided for the mobile voting centre, and
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> > > (b) the election official must be accompanied by another election official and the scrutineers appointed for the mobile voting centre who choose to accompany the election official, and
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> > > (c) the elector’s vote is, so far as is reasonably practicable, to be taken in all respects as if the vote were recorded in a voting centre under usual conditions.
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> **s 118A:** Ins 2026 No 6, Sch 1\[52\].