Industrial Relations Regulation 2018
sec.39Ballot security
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sec.39 Ballot security
The manager of an election or ballot must ensure each ballot paper for the election— has a watermark or other distinctive pattern that prevents it from being reproduced other than by the manager or someone authorised by the manager; and is of a type of paper that hides a vote marked on it from view when it is folded once. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. However, subsection (1) does not make an electoral officer liable for an offence. (sec.39-ssec.1) The manager of an election or ballot must ensure each ballot paper for the election— has a watermark or other distinctive pattern that prevents it from being reproduced other than by the manager or someone authorised by the manager; and is of a type of paper that hides a vote marked on it from view when it is folded once. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. (sec.39-ssec.2) However, subsection (1) does not make an electoral officer liable for an offence.
- (a) has a watermark or other distinctive pattern that prevents it from being reproduced other than by the manager or someone authorised by the manager; and
- (b) is of a type of paper that hides a vote marked on it from view when it is folded once.