Division 5 Interstate or overseas pre-poll voting officers

21AJ   Interstate or overseas pre-poll voting officers

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

(a)  interstate or overseas pre-poll voting officers, or

(b)  deputy interstate or overseas pre-poll voting officers,

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

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

(3)  This section does not prevent the appointment of a person as an interstate or overseas pre-poll voting officer to fill a vacancy in that office.

21AK   Appointment of assistants for interstate or overseas pre-poll voting officer

An interstate or overseas pre-poll voting officer may appoint persons to act as his or her assistants in the exercise of the officer’s functions.