Senators’ Elections Act 1903
9Power to extend time and make provision to meet difficulties
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9 Power to extend time and make provision to meet difficulties
9 Power to extend time and make provision to meet difficulties
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, before or after the day appointed for the polling the Governor may, by notice published in the Gazette, provide for extending the time for holding the election or for returning the writ, or meeting any difficulty which might otherwise interfere with the due course of the election; and any provision so made shall be valid and sufficient and any date provided for in lieu of a date specified by the writ shall be deemed to be the date so specified.
(2) (Repealed)
s 9: Am 1984 No 112, Sch 1 (4); 1988 No 92, Sch 19 (2).