Referendums Regulation 2016 (QLD)

Referendums Regulation 2016

1   Short title

This regulation may be cited as the Referendums Regulation 2016.

2   Electors who may make an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 32A

(1)For section 32A(c) of the Act, the prescribed classes of electors are—

(a)special postal voters who are not detained in lawful custody; and

(b)distance voters.

(2)In this section—

distance voter means an elector whose address, as shown on an electoral roll, is more than 20km by the nearest practicable route from a polling booth.

3   Approval of procedures for counting of absentee votes—Act, s 41A

For section 41A(3)(a) of the Act, the procedures about how absentee votes at a referendum are to be counted, set out in the document called ‘Procedures for counting of absentee votes for State elections and referendums, version 2.1’, made by the commission on 30 June 2023, are approved.

Note—

Under section 41A(3)(c) of the Act, the procedures must be published on the commission’s website.

4   [Repealed]