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Referendums Act 1997
sec.24DHelp to enable electors to vote at pre-poll voting offices
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### sec.24D Help to enable electors to vote at pre-poll voting offices
Subject to subsection (2) , if an elector satisfies an issuing officer that the elector can not vote without help, the elector may be accompanied in the pre-poll voting office by another person chosen by the elector.
The other person may help the elector in any of the following ways—
acting as an interpreter;
explaining the ballot paper and the requirements of section 33 relating to its marking;
marking, or helping the elector to mark, the ballot paper in the way the elector wishes;
folding the ballot paper and putting it in the ballot box.
If an elector can not enter a pre-poll voting office because of illness, disability or advanced pregnancy, but can come to a place (the voting place ) close to the pre-poll voting office, then, subject to subsection (4) —
the issuing officer may perform the issuing officer’s functions; and
the voter may vote;
at the voting place as if it were the pre-poll voting office.
The issuing officer must—
before taking any action under subsection (3) , inform any scrutineers present of the proposed action; and
ensure that, after the ballot paper is marked, it is—
folded to conceal the vote; and
put into an envelope and sealed; and
open the envelope inside the pre-poll voting office in the presence of any scrutineers and put the folded ballot paper in a ballot box.
s 24D ins 2015 No. 35 s 18
(sec.24D-ssec.1) Subject to subsection (2) , if an elector satisfies an issuing officer that the elector can not vote without help, the elector may be accompanied in the pre-poll voting office by another person chosen by the elector.
(sec.24D-ssec.2) The other person may help the elector in any of the following ways— acting as an interpreter; explaining the ballot paper and the requirements of section 33 relating to its marking; marking, or helping the elector to mark, the ballot paper in the way the elector wishes; folding the ballot paper and putting it in the ballot box.
(sec.24D-ssec.3) If an elector can not enter a pre-poll voting office because of illness, disability or advanced pregnancy, but can come to a place (the voting place ) close to the pre-poll voting office, then, subject to subsection (4) — the issuing officer may perform the issuing officer’s functions; and the voter may vote; at the voting place as if it were the pre-poll voting office.
(sec.24D-ssec.4) The issuing officer must— before taking any action under subsection (3) , inform any scrutineers present of the proposed action; and ensure that, after the ballot paper is marked, it is— folded to conceal the vote; and put into an envelope and sealed; and open the envelope inside the pre-poll voting office in the presence of any scrutineers and put the folded ballot paper in a ballot box.
- (a) acting as an interpreter;
- (b) explaining the ballot paper and the requirements of section 33 relating to its marking;
- (c) marking, or helping the elector to mark, the ballot paper in the way the elector wishes;
- (d) folding the ballot paper and putting it in the ballot box.
- (a) the issuing officer may perform the issuing officer’s functions; and
- (b) the voter may vote;
- (a) before taking any action under subsection (3) , inform any scrutineers present of the proposed action; and
- (b) ensure that, after the ballot paper is marked, it is— (i) folded to conceal the vote; and (ii) put into an envelope and sealed; and
- (i) folded to conceal the vote; and
- (ii) put into an envelope and sealed; and
- (c) open the envelope inside the pre-poll voting office in the presence of any scrutineers and put the folded ballot paper in a ballot box.
- (i) folded to conceal the vote; and
- (ii) put into an envelope and sealed; and