Presidential Elections (Special Polling Arrangements for Nursing Homes) Regulations 2023
Table of Contents
Enacting Formula
Part 1 PRELIMINARY
1 Citation and commencement
2 Definitions
3 Act to apply subject to these Regulations
Part 2 SPECIAL POLLING STATIONS
Division 1 — Lists of nursing home electors and mobile polling electors
4 Lists to be prepared
5 Principal list of nursing home electors
6 Supplementary list of nursing home electors
7 Principal list of mobile polling electors
8 Supplementary lists of mobile polling electors
9 Inspection of lists by candidates and polling agents
10 Only listed electors may vote at special polling station
Division 2 — Admission of polling agents and nursing homes staff
11 Section 22 of Act to be modified
12 Admission of polling agents to special polling station
13 Election not invalidated by absence of polling agent
14 Nursing home staff authorised to assist presiding officers, etc.
15 Visits allowed in nursing home on polling day
Division 3 — Boundaries of polling places in special polling station
16 Boundaries of polling place in special polling station
Division 4 — Materials and facilities
17 Delivery of election materials
18 Modification of section 24: ballot boxes
19 Other logistics
Part 3 VOTING BY ATTENDANCE IN PERSON AT POLLING PLACES
20 Application of this Part
21 Modifications of provisions of Act relating to manner of voting
Part 4 MOBILE POLLING
22 Application of this Part
23 Mobile polling teams – composition and roles
24 Guidance notice on mobile polling to be given to each mobile polling elector on eve of polling day or as soon as practicable
25 Decision on when mobile polling starts, etc., to be made before hours of poll
26 Deployment of ballot boxes and mobile polling teams when mobile polling starts
27 Allocation of additional mobile polling voters identified during polling day
28 Leader of mobile polling team to determine route to visit mobile polling electors
29 Manner of voting
30 Modification of section 26 of Act: mobile polling elector excused from voting if visit by mobile polling team forbidden under Act
31 Electors who received ballot papers before close of voting hours may complete voting
32 Procedure after end of last visit by mobile polling team
33 Election not invalidated by failure to visit mobile polling elector
Part 5 PROCEDURE AFTER CLOSE OF POLL; COUNTING OF VOTES
34 Procedure after close of poll at special polling station
35 Opening of ballot boxes from special polling stations
36 Modification of section 32 of Act: counting votes cast at special polling station
37 Recounting