Local Government Electoral Act 2011 Local Government Electoral Regulation 2012 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Local Government Electoral Regulation 2012 . 2 Date of quadrennial election for 2016 For section 23 (3) of the Act, the day fixed for the quadrennial election for 2016 is 19 March 2016. s 2 sub 2014 SL No. 290 s 16 3 Electors who may cast an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 68 (5B) (c) (1) For section 68 (5B) (c) of the Act, the following classes of electors are prescribed—

(a) special postal voters;

(b) distance voters.

(2) In this section— distance voter—

(a) means an elector, other than a special postal 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 who can not, for another reason, vote at a polling booth during the voting period for the by-election. Examples 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

• an elector who, during the voting period for the by-election, has not yet voted and will be outside Queensland for the remainder of the voting period

voting period, for a by-election, means the period—

(a) starting on the first day that a pre-poll vote may be made for the by-election; and

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

s 3 prev s 3 sub 2014 SL No. 290 s 16 om 2015 Act No. 2 s 44 pres s 3 ins 2015 SL No. 143 s 3 amd 2016 SL No. 101 s 3 4 Approval of procedure for electronically assisted voting—Act, s 75A (3) (a) For section 75A (3) (a) of the Act, the procedures set out in the document called ‘‘Electronically assisted voting procedures’ for local government elections’ made by the electoral commission on 15 June 2016 are approved. s 4 ins 2015 SL No. 143 s 3 amd 2016 SL No. 101 s 4