176Adjournment of voting

176 Adjournment of voting

176 Adjournment of voting

(1) If for any cause a voting centre does not open or the conduct of an election is interrupted or obstructed at a voting centre, the Electoral Commissioner may adjourn the conduct of the election at the voting centre to a later day specified by the Electoral Commissioner.

(2) The holding of an election must not be adjourned to a day later than the day before the day named as the return day in the writ for the election.

(3) The Electoral Commissioner must give public notice of any such adjournment.

(4) If the conduct of the election at a voting centre has been adjourned, only those electors who are enrolled for the district within which the voting centre is situated are entitled to vote at the adjourned voting at the voting centre.

(5) The provisions of this Act with respect to absent voting do not apply in the case of an adjournment.