Queensland Consolidated Regulations

ELECTORAL REGULATION 2024 - REG 6

6 Electors who may make an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 121A

(1) For section 121A (c) of the Act , each of the following classes of electors are prescribed—

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

(b) distance voters;

(c) out-of-State voters.

(2) In this section—

"distance voter" —

(a) means an elector, other than a special postal voter or out-of-State voter, whose address, as shown on an electoral roll, is more than 20km by the nearest practicable route from a polling booth; and

(b) if the election is a by-election—also means an elector, other than a special postal voter or out-of-State voter, who can not, for another reason, vote at a polling booth during the voting period for the by-election.

Example of an elector for paragraph (b)—

an elector who will be absent from the elector’s electoral district for the whole of the voting period for the by-election

"out-of-State voter" , for an election, means an elector who is not in Queensland at any time during the voting period.

"voting period" , for an election, means the period—

(a) starting on the first day that a pre-poll ordinary vote may be made for an election; and

(b) ending when ordinary voting hours for the election ends.