(1) Where any area of the State is a remote area of the State for the purposes of this Act by virtue of a declaration under section 100(1)(e), the presiding officer and other officer appointed under section 102(5), notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, shall attend at such places in the remote area, and at such times in the period of 14 days up to and including polling day, as the Electoral Commissioner thinks fit, with such number of mobile portable ballot boxes as the Electoral Commissioner thinks fit and approved by him for the purpose of affording an opportunity to vote to every elector who may have difficulty in attending at a polling place under usual conditions.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, subsections (3) and (4) of section 100A apply with such modifications as are necessary.

(2a) The Returning Officer shall give not less than 48 hours notice in writing to each candidate for the region or district in which a place is situated of the time or times at which the presiding officer and another officer will be in attendance at that place under subsection (1).

(3) Where, for reasonable cause, there is a failure to attend a place in a remote area as required by subsection (1) or to give the notice required by subsection (2a), the election and the result thereof shall be deemed not to be affected thereby.

[Section 100B inserted by No. 39 of 1979 s. 16; amended by No. 40 of 1987 s. 84; No. 79 of 1987 s. 34.]