Electoral Act 1992

The following persons are the only persons who are entitled to vote at an election for an electoral district—

persons enrolled on the electoral roll for the district;

persons who are not enrolled, but are entitled to be enrolled on the electoral roll for the district because of section 64(1)(a)(ii);

persons whose names are not on the electoral roll for the district because of official error;

persons who—

are not enrolled on the electoral roll for any district but are entitled to be enrolled on the electoral roll for the district; and

after 6p.m. on the cut-off day for electoral rolls and no later than 6p.m. on the day before the polling day, have given a notice to the commission or an electoral registrar for the district under section 65.

However, a person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment or detention of 1 year or longer is not entitled to vote at an election for an electoral district.

Also, a person is not entitled to vote—

more than once at the same election for an electoral district; or

at 2 or more elections for electoral districts held on the same day.

For subsection (2), a person is serving a sentence of imprisonment or detention only if—

the person is in detention on a full-time basis for an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory; and

the detention is attributable to the sentence of imprisonment or detention concerned.

Also, for subsection (2), any part of a sentence of detention that a person is serving as a term of imprisonment is taken to be attributable to the sentence of detention.