Parliamentary Elections Act 1954 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 1 · Preliminary
7. Plural voting
Feedback & supportSubject to the provisions of this Act, a person is entitled to have his or her name entered in the register of one electoral division only.
register
“register” or “register of electors” means the register of electors for any particular electoral division comprising sections, each of which shall relate to a polling district of that electoral division;
Any person who votes as an elector —
elector
“elector” means a person whose name is entered in a register as an elector to vote at an election;
in or in respect of an electoral division other than the electoral division in which he or she is registered as an elector;
more than once at any election in or in respect of the same electoral division in which he or she is registered as an elector; or
in or in respect of more than one electoral division at any general election,shall be guilty of an illegal practice.
The court before which a person is convicted under subsection (2) may, in its discretion in the circumstances of any particular case, mitigate or remit any penalty or incapacity which may be imposed in respect of the conviction under section 79.