21AJ   Postal voting officers and deputy postal voting officers

(1)  The Electoral Commissioner may, by instrument in writing, appoint appropriate persons to be:

(a)  postal voting officers, or

(b)  deputy postal voting officers,

      at a place outside New South Wales (whether overseas or in Australia), for the purposes of all elections.

(2)  A deputy postal voting officer may act as, and is taken to be, the postal voting officer during the illness or absence of the postal voting officer or during a vacancy in the office of the postal voting officer.

(3)  This section does not prevent the appointment of a person as a postal voting officer to fill a vacancy in that office.