Referendums Act 1983

an application for permission to vote as an absent voter or provisional voter under the Electoral Act 1907 Part IV Division 3A Subdivision 3 or to vote by postal voting under Part IV Division 3A Subdivision 6 of that Act shall be deemed to include a corresponding application in respect of the referendum and any reference in the application to the election shall be deemed to include a reference to the referendum; and

if a person is a postal voter for the election under the Electoral Act 1907 section 100D, the Electoral Commissioner must send the postal voter the ballot paper for the referendum when the Electoral Commissioner sends the documents required for the election under section 100D of that Act; and

a declaration that enables an elector to vote under any provision of the Electoral Act 1907 at the election enables him to vote under that provision at the referendum and any reference in the declaration to the election shall be deemed to include a reference to the referendum; and

subject to paragraph (d) a determination of entitlement to vote at the election determines the entitlement to vote at the referendum; and

if an issuing officer within the meaning of the Electoral Act 1907 visits an elector to take a vote for the election and the elector makes an application under section 102B(4) of that Act, the issuing officer must give the elector the ballot paper for the referendum when the Electoral Commissioner gives the documents required under section 102C(1) of that Act; and

the answers to the questions asked under the Electoral Act 1907 section 96C may be accepted as sufficient to enable the person to vote at the referendum if the claim to vote at the election is not rejected; and

if the officer considers it necessary, the officer may, in addition to the questions asked under the Electoral Act 1907 section 96C, ask the person the following question —

if the person does not answer the question or admits they have already voted at the referendum or referendums, must refuse to allow the person to vote; and

if the person’s claim to vote at the referendum is not rejected, the officer must give the elector the ballot paper for the referendum when the officer gives the ballot paper for the election under the Electoral Act 1907 section 98A(1)(a); and

the same ballot boxes and polling booths may be used for the purposes of the referendum but in that case the ballot papers for the referendum shall be of a different colour to the colour of the ballot papers for the election; and

a ballot paper used at the referendum shall, if it is required to be placed in an envelope by a voter, be placed in the same envelope as the ballot paper used at the election; and

the copies of the rolls supplied to the returning officer and delivered to presiding officers for the purposes of the election pursuant to the Electoral Act 1907 section 76AA must be used for the purposes of the referendum; and

appointments made under any provision of the Electoral Act 1907 for the purposes of the election shall have effect under that provision for the purposes of the referendum.