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Electoral Act 1993

Elections - Voting

164: Persons not to remain in polling places

You could also call this:

"Leave the voting place if you're not voting or helping with the election"

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When you go to a polling place to vote, you cannot stay there if you are not actually voting. You can stay if you are the Returning Officer, a polling place official, or a scrutineer. You can also stay if the Returning Officer says it is okay for you to be there.

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Part 6Elections
Voting

164Persons not to remain in polling places

  1. No person not actually engaged in voting may remain in a polling place other than the following:

  2. the Returning Officer:
    1. polling place officials:
      1. scrutineers:
        1. any other person with the permission of the Returning Officer.

          Notes
          • Section 164: substituted, on , by section 64 of the Electoral Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 1).