Clause 14

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) Subject to subsection (2) but without affecting section 52 (on plural voting), a person must not be admitted —

to an ordinary polling station to vote in person at an election unless the person is allotted under section 18(1)(c) to that ordinary polling station;

to an overseas polling station to vote in person at an election unless the person —

is registered as an overseas elector;

is not designated under section 13A(3A) of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954 as a postal voter for that election; and

is allotted under section 13A(3A) of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954 to that overseas polling station; or

to a special polling station to vote in person at an election unless the person is allotted under section 30B(1) to that special polling station.”;

by deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:“(2) Where an elector for any electoral division is employed as a presiding officer, police officer, or in any other official capacity at an ordinary polling station or a special polling station, and it is inconvenient for him or her to vote at the ordinary polling station which has been allotted to him or her, the Returning Officer may, by a certificate authorise the elector to vote at any other polling station and that other polling station is deemed, for the purposes of this section, to be the polling station allotted to that elector.”;

by deleting subsection (3A);

by deleting the words “, section 33C(3)(b), 36C or 36DA” in subsection (4) and substituting the words “or section 33C(3)(b)”;

by deleting the words “the polling agent or agents of each candidate” in subsection (5)(c) and substituting the words “the polling agents admitted to the polling station under this section”; and

by deleting subsection (6) and substituting the following subsection:“(6) The number of polling agents of each candidate that may be admitted to a polling station must not exceed the number calculated in the prescribed manner.”.