16Polling places

16 Polling places

(1) The polling places appointed pursuant to paragraph 80(1)(a) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 shall in addition be polling places for the purposes of a referendum. (2) The Electoral Commissioner shall, on at least one occasion after the issue of a writ for a referendum but before the day fixed for taking the votes at the referendum, if it is practicable to do so, in respect of each Division cause to be published in a newspaper circulating in that Division a notice: (a) setting out all polling places in that Division; and (b) setting out all places that were, at the time of the last referendum or at the time of the last election for which a poll was taken in that Division, whichever last occurred, polling places for that Division but that have been abolished since that time. (3) Where the voting day for a referendum is the same as that fixed for the polling at an election, the publication by the Electoral Commissioner of a notice in respect of a Division under subsection 80(3) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 shall be deemed to be a publication under subsection (2) of this section.