Maximum complaint time since announcement of election results

Commonwealth Electoral Act, 1918, Part XXII—Court ofDisputed Returns, Section355

(e)  be filed in the Registry of theHigh Court within 40 days after:

(i) if the polling day for the election in dispute is not the polling day for anyother election—the return of the writ for the election; or

(ii) if the polling day for the election in dispute is also the polling day foranother election or other elections—the return of whichever of the writs forthe election in dispute and that other election or those other elections isreturned last; or

(iii) if the choice or the appointment of a person to hold the place of a Senatorunder section 15 of the Constitution is in dispute—the notification ofthat choice or appointment.