Senators’ Elections Act 1903

This Act may be cited as the Senators’ Elections Act 1903.

For the purpose of elections of Senators for New South Wales of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, the Governor may, from time to time, by order published in the Gazette, fix the dates for:

the issue of the writ,

the close of the electoral rolls,

the nomination of the candidates,

the polling, and

the return of the writ.

Subject to subsection (2), the date fixed for the nomination of the candidates shall not be less than 10 days nor more than 27 days after the date of the writ.

Where a candidate for an election dies, after being nominated and before 12 o’clock noon on the day fixed as the date of nomination for the election, the day fixed as the date of nomination for the election shall, except for the purposes of section 4B, be taken to be the day next succeeding the day so fixed.

The date fixed for the polling shall not be less than 23 days nor more than 31 days after the date of nomination.

The day fixed for the polling shall be a Saturday.

The date fixed for the return of the writ shall not be more than 100 days after the issue of the writ.

The writ shall specify the date for:

the close of the electoral rolls,

the nomination,

the polling, and

the return of the writ.

The writ shall be deemed to have been issued at the hour of 6 o’clock in the afternoon of the day on which the writ was issued.

Nomination may be made at any time after the issue of the writ but before twelve o’clock noon on the day of nomination.

The polling shall be taken at all polling places within the State appointed under the law of the Commonwealth for the time being in force for the regulation of Parliamentary elections.

The poll shall be open at 8 o’clock in the morning, and shall not close until all electors in the polling booth at 6 o’clock in the afternoon and desiring to vote have voted.