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Returning Officer, transporting or arranging to transport by motor vehicles, electors or voters subject to COVID-19 stay orders to or from special polling stations for the purpose of voting at the poll at an election.

Public health advisories

8. Section 81(1) of the Parliamentary Elections Act does not apply to any communications activity undertaken by or with the authority of the Returning Officer or the Director of Medical Services advising voters against voting at an election if, on the polling day of the election, they—

(a) are not subject to a COVID-19 quarantine order; but

(b) either—

(i) exhibit acute respiratory symptoms or are febrile; or

(ii) may have been exposed to the risk of becoming infected with, or a carrier of, the COVID-19.

Modified nomination proceedings

9.—(1) Subsection (2) applies to an individual who—

(a) is seeking nomination as a candidate at an election in an electoral division (called in this section the aspiring candidate); and

(b) is, on the nomination day of the election, unable or unfit to attend in person at the nomination proceedings at the place of nomination because of—

(i) being subject to a COVID-19 quarantine order;

(ii) being subject to a COVID-19 stay order;

(iii) any other requirement in the Stay Order Regulations to not leave his or her residence or place of accommodation;

(iv) his or her hospitalisation for any reason certified by a duly qualified medical practitioner; or