Certain documents may be transmitted electronically
211A Certain documents may be transmitted electronically
In this section —
certain document means a claim, nomination, application, notice, objection or other communication that is required or permitted to be transmitted to or from the Electoral Commissioner or any other officer under —
Part IIIA, IV or 6; or
any other provision of the Act as is prescribed;
transmitted includes sent, given, made, forwarded by post, delivered to or lodged with.
If the Electoral Commissioner has established procedures for the electronic transmission and recording of data for certain documents, or a case or class of cases of such documents then, despite anything else in this Act, a document transmitted in accordance with those procedures is to be taken to be transmitted under this Act.
If, under this Act, a certain document is required to be signed by a person, then, despite anything else in this Act, that requirement is to be taken to be satisfied in respect of an electronically transmitted document if procedures established under subsection (2) by the Electoral Commissioner include a method to be used to —
identify the person transmitting the document; and
indicate the person’s intention in respect of the information communicated in the document,
and that method is complied with.
[Section 211A inserted: No. 35 of 2012 s. 6; amended: No. 30 of 2023 s. 174.]
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