Torres Strait Regional Authority Election Rules 2017
79Mobile polling booths — prisons
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79 Mobile polling booths — prisons
(1) The Electoral Commissioner may make arrangements with the Controller‑General of Prisons for a State or Territory for taking the votes of persons confined in prisons in the State or Territory.
(2) The Returning Officer may appoint electoral visitors and liaison officers for the purposes of this rule.
(3) If arrangements in force under subrule (1) are applicable to a prison, an electoral visitor must visit the prison for the purpose of taking the votes of persons confined in the prison.
(4) When visiting a prison, an electoral visitor must:
(a) take to the prison a ballot‑box, ballot‑papers and anything else necessary for taking votes at the prison; and
(b) subject to subrule (5), be accompanied by a liaison officer, a polling official and any scrutineers that wish to attend.
(5) A visit to a prison must be made:
(a) on the day; and
(b) at the time; and
(c) in accordance with the conditions;
fixed by or under the arrangements applicable to the prison.
(6) In spite of arrangements in force under subrule (1), a visit to a prison may not be made if the electoral visitor is informed by the officer in charge of the prison or a member of the staff of the prison that the visit is forbidden by the officer in charge because of circumstances related to the security of the prison.
(7) At the end of a visit by an electoral visitor to a prison, the visitor must, as soon as practicable and in the presence of the polling official and any scrutineers who are in attendance:
(a) if the Returning Officer has directed the electoral visitor to do so:
(b) in any other case — publicly close, fasten, seal and take charge of each ballot‑box and send each sealed ballot‑box, together with the voter cards corresponding to the envelopes in those ballot‑boxes, to the Returning Officer.
(8) An electoral visitor who visits a prison may, at the request of a voter confined in the prison, give the voter literature including how‑to‑vote cards, made available by candidates in the election.