When electors can vote at polling places
96B When electors can vote at polling places
An elector can vote at a polling place —
if the polling place is appointed as a place at which an elector may vote in an election on polling day under section 90(1)(c)(ii) — when the polling place is open on polling day; and
if the polling place is an early polling place — when the early polling place is open on each early voting day.
On each early voting day, an early polling place must open and close at the times decided by the Electoral Commissioner under subsection (3).
The Electoral Commissioner must decide the opening and closing times for early polling places on each early voting day and publish those times on the Commission website.
On polling day the polls at a polling place must —
open at 8 am; and
close when all electors who are at the polling place at 6 pm and want to vote have voted.
If there is a dispute about when a polling place is to open or close, the decision of the presiding officer is final.
[Section 96B inserted: No. 30 of 2023 s. 80.]
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