Grounds of application for postal or pre‑poll vote
Schedule 2 Grounds of application for postal or pre‑poll vote
Sections 183 and 200A
1. Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the person will be absent from the State or Territory for which the person is enrolled.
2. The person will not, at any time during the hours of polling on polling day, be within 8 kilometres by the nearest practicable route of any polling booth in the State or Territory for which the person is enrolled.
3. Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the person will be travelling under conditions that will prevent the person attending a polling booth in the State or Territory for which the person is enrolled.
3A. Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the person will be absent from the Division for which the person is enrolled.
4. The person will be unable to attend a polling booth on polling day because the person:
is seriously ill; or
is infirm; or
has recently given birth or is expected shortly to do so; or
is a person with disability.
(In the case of a person who will be a patient at a hospital on polling day, this paragraph applies regardless of the operation of sections 224 and 227 of the Act.)
5. The person will be unable to attend a polling booth on polling day because the person will be at a place (other than a hospital) caring for a person who:
is seriously ill; or
is infirm; or
has recently given birth or is expected shortly to do so; or
is a person with disability.
6. Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the person will be a patient at a hospital and unable to vote at the hospital.
7A. The person will be unable to attend a polling booth on polling day because of a reasonable fear for, or a reasonable apprehension about, his or her personal wellbeing or safety.
8. Because of the person’s religious beliefs or membership of a religious order, the person:
is precluded from attending a polling booth; or
for the greater part of the hours of polling on polling day, is precluded from attending a polling booth.
9. On polling day, the person will be serving a sentence of imprisonment or otherwise under detention.
10. The person’s address has been excluded from the Roll under section 104.
11. Throughout the hours of polling on polling day, the person will be engaged in his or her employment or occupation and:
if the person is an employee, the person is not entitled to leave of absence under section 345; and
in any other case, the absence of the person for the purpose of attending at a polling booth to vote would be likely to cause loss to the person in his or her occupation.
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