Absent voting
12 Absent voting
Where pursuant to a direction of the Commission a poll is to be conducted at a meeting the returning officer shall allow an eligible producer who is entitled to do so under subregulation (2) to lodge an absent vote by post.
An eligible producer who applies to the returning officer not less than 7 days before the date fixed for the meeting at which a poll is to be taken and satisfies the returning officer —
that he or she resides more than 30 km from the place at which the meeting is to be convened; or
that because —
of his or her ill health;
of his or her absence from the State on the day of the meeting; or
he or she will be travelling at the time of the meeting,
he or she will not be able to attend the meeting,
is entitled to lodge an absent vote by post.
Regulations 17 to 23 with such modifications as are necessary for that purpose apply to and in relation to absent voting by post as though the votes were taken by postal ballot.
[Regulation 12 amended: Gazette 13 Feb 2001 p. 870.]
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