Australian Capital Territory Electoral Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

ELECTION AND REFERENDUM.

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY ELECTORAL REGULATIONS.

Statutory Rules 1955, No. 47.(a)

1. Regulation 5 of the Australian Capital Territory Electoral Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Assistant Returning Officers.

“5.—(1.) The Chief Electoral Officer may appoint a person to be an Assistant Returning Officer—

(a) for a portion of the Territory; or

(b) at a place outside Australia.

“(2.) A person appointed to be an Assistant Returning Officer for a portion of the Territory may, subject to the control of the Returning Officer, perform the functions and exercise the powers of the Returning Officer in, or in relation to, that portion of the Territory.

“(3.) A person appointed to be an Assistant Returning Officer at a place outside Australia may, subject to the control of the Chief Electoral Officer, perform such functions and exercise such powers as are conferred on an Assistant Returning Officer at a place outside Australia by these Regulations, or by the Commonwealth Electoral Act in its application to the Territory.”.

Application for postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper.

2. Regulation 37 of the Australian Capital Territory Electoral Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (i) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “or”;

(b) by adding at the end of paragraph (ii) of sub-regulation (1.) the following word and paragraph:—

“;or (iii) if the applicant is temporarily outside Australia—to an Assistant Returning Officer at a place outside Australia.”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “or Divisional Returning Officer” and inserting in their stead the words “,Divisional Returning Officer or Assistant Returning Officer “.

Postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper.

3. Regulation 38 of the Australian Capital Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “or Divisional Returning Officer” and inserting in their stead the words “,Divisional Returning Officer or Assistant Returning Officer”.

Form 16.

4. Form 15 in the First Schedule to the Australian Capital Territory Electoral Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the word “Darwin” the words “,or if the applicant is temporarily outside Australia to an Assistant Returning Officer at a place outside Australia”;

 

(a) Made under the Australian Capital Territory Representation Act 1948–1949 on 16th June, 1955; notified in the Gazette on 23rd June, 1955.

(b) by omitting the words—

“An elector whose name appears on the Roll for the Australian Capital Territory, for a State, or for the Northern Territory (or where the applicant is outside Australia, an Officer of the Naval, Military or Air Forces of the Commonwealth or other part of the King’s Dominions or a person employed in the Public Service of the Commonwealth or of a Territory of the Commonwealth)”

and inserting in their stead the words—

“An elector whose name appears on the Roll for the Australian Capital Territory, for a State, or for the Northern Territory (or where the applicant is outside Australia, an Officer of the Naval, Military or Air Forces of the Commonwealth or of some other part of the Queen’s dominions, a person employed in the Public Service of the Commonwealth, a Territory of the Commonwealth or a part of the Queen’s dominions or a Justice of the Peace for, or a minister of religion or medical practitioner resident in, a Territory of the Commonwealth or a part of the Queen’s dominions)”; and

(c) by omitting the words—

“*If the application is being made to the Divisional Returning Officer for an Electoral Division of a State or to the Returning Officer for the Northern Territory, the application should be altered accordingly.”

and inserting in their stead the words—

“*If the application is being made to the Divisional Returning Officer for an Electoral Division of a State or to the Returning Officer for the Northern Territory or to an Assistant Returning Officer at a place outside Australia, the application should be altered accordingly.”.

Form 16.

5. Form 16 in the First Schedule to the Australian Capital Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by omitting the words—

“Returning Officer for the Australian Capital Territory, or

Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of , or

Returning Officer for the Northern Territory,”

and inserting in their stead the words—

“Returning Officer for the Australian Capital Territory, or

Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of , or

Returning Officer for the Northern Territory , or

Assistant Returning Officer at .”.

 

Employment. See REPATRIATION.

Establishments, Naval. See