Maintenance of order at and near polling places
356SA Maintenance of order at and near polling places
A police officer may remove a person from a polling place or the immediate vicinity of a polling place if the police officer has reasonable grounds to believe the person is committing, has committed or is attempting to commit an offence under the Act or this Regulation at that polling place or in the immediate vicinity of that polling place.
A police officer may remove or cause to be removed from a polling place and from the immediate vicinity of the polling place any person—
who, having been given a lawful direction by or under the authority of the election manager or polling place manager, fails to comply with that direction, or
who is obstructing the access or approaches to the polling place, or
who is obstructing or unnecessarily delaying the proceedings at the polling place, or
who is behaving in a disorderly manner or is causing a disturbance.
The election manager and each polling place manager may give directions for the following purposes—
maintaining order at an election or a place where voting is occurring,
protecting the health and safety of persons at an election or a place where voting is occurring.
A person must not, without lawful authority, contravene any such direction.
Maximum penalty (subsection (4)): 10 penalty units.
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