Electoral Act 1992

The commission must ensure that appropriate polling booths are established for elections.

In deciding the number, kind and location of polling booths, the commission must take into account, in addition to any other matters that it considers relevant, the desirability of the booths being the same as polling booths for the purposes of the Commonwealth Electoral Act and of their being accessible to voters with disabilities.

The commission must ensure that each polling booth is provided with an adequate number of voting compartments and ballot papers.

In the case only of a mobile polling booth mentioned in section 99(8), the commission must, if requested by a candidate, ensure that ‘how to vote’ matter supplied by the candidate is distributed at the polling booth.

The commission must advertise, in the ways the commission considers appropriate, including, for example, on the commission’s website, the following information about each polling booth for an election—

the electoral districts for which an ordinary vote may be made at the polling booth;

the location of the polling booth;

the voting hours of the polling booth.

The commission must not—

establish a polling booth on polling day; or

abolish a previously established ordinary polling booth during the period beginning when the writ for an election is issued and ending on polling day, unless it is necessary to do so for circumstances beyond the commission’s control.

The commission must advertise the establishment and abolition of ordinary polling booths in the ways the commission considers appropriate, including, for example, on the commission’s website.

The commission must ensure that—

electors are allowed to enter ordinary polling booths between 8a.m. and 6p.m. on polling day and to stay until they have voted; and

appropriate electors are allowed to enter mobile polling booths, at times determined in writing by the commission, during the period referred to in section 99(4) and (9) and to stay until they have voted.