COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1977
No. 116 of 1977
An Act relating to Proclamations
with respect to the distribution of the States into Electoral Divisions.
BE IT ENACTED
by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth
of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Electoral
Amendment Act (No. 2) 1977.
(2) The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 is in this Act
referred to as the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. Subject to sub-section 3(2), this Act shall come into operation on
the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Redistribution
3. (1) Section 25 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section
(4).
(2) Sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have come into operation
immediately after the commencement of the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment
Act 1977.
Validation
4. The Proclamation by the Governor-General dated 7 April 1977 and
published in the Gazette on 12 April 1977 directing that a
redistribution of the State of Western Australia into Electoral Divisions be
made, and everything done, or purporting to have been done, by virtue of the
Proclamation or in relation to or for the purposes of the redistribution, have
effect, and shall be deemed to have had effect, at all times and for all
purposes, as if the Proclamation had been made in pursuance of section 25 of
the Principal Act as amended by this Act.