Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41
Current version for 26 November 2012 to date (accessed 23 May 2013 at 02:53)
Part 5Division 11ASection 114ZP

114ZP   Entitlement to vote at declared institution

(1)  An elector who:
(a)  is, for the time being, a temporary or permanent resident or an inpatient of a declared institution, and
(b)  has, by message to the returning officer for the district in which the institution is situated or a pre-poll voting officer assigned to take the poll at the institution, requested an opportunity to record his or her vote at the institution,
      is entitled to vote under this Division while the pre-poll voting officers are at the institution for the purpose of taking the poll.
(2)  An elector to whom a postal vote certificate and postal ballot paper have been issued is not entitled to vote under this Division unless he or she first delivers, for cancellation, to a pre-poll voting officer who takes the poll at the institution of which the elector is a temporary or permanent resident or an inpatient, his or her postal vote certificate and postal ballot paper.
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