Referendums Act 1997Referendums Regulation 20161Short titleThis regulation may be cited as the Referendums Regulation 2016.2Electors who may make an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 32A(1)For section 32A(c) of the Act, the prescribed classes of electors are—

(a)special postal voters who are not detained in lawful custody; and

(b)distance voters.

(2)In this section—distance voter means an elector whose address, as shown on an electoral roll, is more than 20km by the nearest practicable route from a polling booth.s 2 amd 2020 SL No. 10 s 123Approval of procedures for counting of absentee votes—Act, s 41AFor section 41A(3)(a) of the Act, the procedures about how absentee votes at a referendum are to be counted, set out in the document called ‘Procedures for Counting of Absentee Votes for State Elections and Referendums, Version 1.0’, made by the commission on 21 January 2020, are approved.Note—Under section 41A(3)(c) of the Act, the procedures must be published on the commission’s website.s 3 prev s 3 om 2020 SL No. 215 s 8pres s 3 ins 2020 SL No. 215 s 94s 4 ins 2020 SL No. 10 s 13om 2020 SL No. 215 s 8