sec.16Kinds of polling booths

### sec.16 Kinds of polling booths There are 3 kinds of polling booths— ordinary polling booths; and mobile polling booths; and pre-poll voting offices. An ordinary polling booth is a building or other structure, or a part of a building or other structure, that the commission arranges to be available on the polling day for a referendum to enable electors in general to vote. A mobile polling booth is— an institution declared under subsection (4) to be a mobile polling booth; or a building, structure, vehicle or other place declared under subsection (6) to be a mobile polling booth. If the commission considers that patients or residents of an institution should be able to vote at the institution, the commission may declare the institution to be a mobile polling booth for the referendum. If the commission declares the institution to be a mobile polling booth, the person in charge of the institution must allow access by members of the commission’s staff, and by patients, residents or inmates of the institution, to enable voting to take place at the referendum. If the commission considers an area is too remote to have enough electors to establish an ordinary polling booth, the commission may— arrange for a building, structure, vehicle or other place to be available as a mobile polling booth for electors in the area to vote at the referendum; and declare the building, structure, vehicle or other place to be a mobile polling booth for the referendum. The commission, a returning officer or an issuing officer may change the arrangements made under subsection (6) at any time. If the arrangements are changed, the commission, returning officer or issuing officer must take the steps that are practical and appropriate to give public notice of the changed arrangements. The result of the referendum is not invalidated only because an issuing officer failed to visit a mobile polling booth as arranged. A declaration made under subsection (4) or (6) must state— the electoral districts for which electors may make an ordinary vote at the mobile polling booth; and the days, during the period that starts 11 days before polling day and ends at 6p.m. on polling day, on which electors may vote at the mobile polling booth; and the voting hours for the mobile polling booth on those days. The commission must publish a declaration made under subsection (4) or (6) , and otherwise advertise the information about the mobile polling booths stated in the declaration, in the ways the commission considers appropriate, including, for example, on the commission’s website. s 16 amd 2002 No. 8 s 64 ; 2015 No. 35 s 13 ; 2019 No. 31 s 77 (sec.16-ssec.1) There are 3 kinds of polling booths— ordinary polling booths; and mobile polling booths; and pre-poll voting offices. (sec.16-ssec.2) An ordinary polling booth is a building or other structure, or a part of a building or other structure, that the commission arranges to be available on the polling day for a referendum to enable electors in general to vote. (sec.16-ssec.3) A mobile polling booth is— an institution declared under subsection (4) to be a mobile polling booth; or a building, structure, vehicle or other place declared under subsection (6) to be a mobile polling booth. (sec.16-ssec.4) If the commission considers that patients or residents of an institution should be able to vote at the institution, the commission may declare the institution to be a mobile polling booth for the referendum. (sec.16-ssec.5) If the commission declares the institution to be a mobile polling booth, the person in charge of the institution must allow access by members of the commission’s staff, and by patients, residents or inmates of the institution, to enable voting to take place at the referendum. (sec.16-ssec.6) If the commission considers an area is too remote to have enough electors to establish an ordinary polling booth, the commission may— arrange for a building, structure, vehicle or other place to be available as a mobile polling booth for electors in the area to vote at the referendum; and declare the building, structure, vehicle or other place to be a mobile polling booth for the referendum. (sec.16-ssec.7) The commission, a returning officer or an issuing officer may change the arrangements made under subsection (6) at any time. (sec.16-ssec.8) If the arrangements are changed, the commission, returning officer or issuing officer must take the steps that are practical and appropriate to give public notice of the changed arrangements. (sec.16-ssec.9) The result of the referendum is not invalidated only because an issuing officer failed to visit a mobile polling booth as arranged. (sec.16-ssec.10) A declaration made under subsection (4) or (6) must state— the electoral districts for which electors may make an ordinary vote at the mobile polling booth; and the days, during the period that starts 11 days before polling day and ends at 6p.m. on polling day, on which electors may vote at the mobile polling booth; and the voting hours for the mobile polling booth on those days. (sec.16-ssec.11) The commission must publish a declaration made under subsection (4) or (6) , and otherwise advertise the information about the mobile polling booths stated in the declaration, in the ways the commission considers appropriate, including, for example, on the commission’s website. - (a) ordinary polling booths; and - (b) mobile polling booths; and - (c) pre-poll voting offices. - (a) an institution declared under subsection (4) to be a mobile polling booth; or - (b) a building, structure, vehicle or other place declared under subsection (6) to be a mobile polling booth. - (a) arrange for a building, structure, vehicle or other place to be available as a mobile polling booth for electors in the area to vote at the referendum; and - (b) declare the building, structure, vehicle or other place to be a mobile polling booth for the referendum. - (a) the electoral districts for which electors may make an ordinary vote at the mobile polling booth; and - (b) the days, during the period that starts 11 days before polling day and ends at 6p.m. on polling day, on which electors may vote at the mobile polling booth; and - (c) the voting hours for the mobile polling booth on those days.