Queensland Subordinate Legislation as Made

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL REGULATION 2023 - REG 7

7 Electors who may cast an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 68

(1) For section 68 (5B) (c) of the Act , the following classes of electors for an election 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" , for an election—

(a) means an elector, other than a special postal voter or an out-of-State voter, whose address, as shown on the voters 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 an 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 local government area or division of the local government area 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 vote may be made for an election; and

(b) ending on the close of the poll for the election.