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Local Government (General) Regulation 2021
329Entitlement to vote at declared institutions
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#### 329 Entitlement to vote at declared institutions
329 Entitlement to vote at declared institutions
> > (1) An elector who—
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> > > (a) is, for the time being, a permanent or temporary resident of a declared institution, and
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> > > (b) has, by message to the returning officer for the area in which the institution is situated or a pre-poll voting officer assigned to take the poll at the institution, requested an opportunity to record his or her vote at the institution,
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> > is entitled to vote under this Subdivision while the pre-poll voting officers are at the institution for the purpose of taking the poll.
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> > (2) An elector to whom a postal vote certificate and postal ballot paper have been issued is not entitled to vote under this Subdivision unless he or she first delivers for cancellation to a pre-poll voting officer who takes the poll at the institution of which the elector is a permanent or temporary resident, his or her postal vote certificate and postal ballot paper.
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> > (3) A person to whom any message referred to in subsection (1)(b) is given for delivery to a pre-poll voting officer must, unless otherwise ordered on medical grounds by a legally qualified medical practitioner, deliver the message to a pre-poll voting officer before, or forthwith after, a pre-poll voting officer enters, for the purpose of taking the poll, the declared institution of which the person making the request is a permanent or temporary resident.
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> > Maximum penalty—0.5 penalty unit.