332AMobile booths for pre-poll voting in remote local government areas

332A Mobile booths for pre-poll voting in remote local government areas

332A Mobile booths for pre-poll voting in remote local government areas

(1) Election manager’s functions The election manager—

(a) may declare an area to be a remote area for the purposes of this section, and

(b) may determine the places in that area that a team will visit for the purposes of this section, and

(c) may determine the days and times when a team will visit those places (such a day must be after nomination day and before election day or a day to which the polling is adjourned), and

(d) must take such steps as it thinks fit to give public notice of—

(i) the places determined under paragraph (b), and

(ii) the days and times determined under paragraph (c) when a team will visit such a place for the purposes of this section.

(2) Teams A team consists of two or more election officials, one of whom must be a pre-poll voting officer who is designated by the election manager as team leader. The team leader is to exercise the functions of the pre-poll voting officer under the following provisions of this section.

(3) Visits and variation of places, days or times A team must make a visit or visits as notified under subsection (1)(d), but, if the team is unable for reasonable cause, or the pre-poll voting officer considers it inappropriate, to make such a visit, the officer may substitute another place, day or time for the visit and, in that event, must—

(a) take such steps as he or she thinks fit to give public notice of the substituted place, day or time, and

(b) inform the election manager.

(4) Failure to visit does not invalidate election result Any failure by a team to make a visit in accordance with this section does not invalidate the result of the election.

(5) Voting At any time when a team is at a place for the purposes of taking votes under this section in an election—

(a) the pre-poll voting officer must have a pre-poll ballot-box, ballot-papers and such other things as are necessary for the votes of electors to be taken at the place, and

(b) every person at the place who is entitled to vote in the election for the area is entitled to have his or her vote taken under this section, and