Commonwealth Electoral and Referendum Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1911. No. 82.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1902-1909.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902-1909, should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this ninth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

KING O’MALLEY,

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

 

Duty of Persons to Send in Claims for Enrolment.

7a (i.) Where any Proclamation directing the preparation of new Rolls for any State has been issued, every person living in the State (whether enrolled on any Roll or not) who is entitled to be enrolled as an elector shall, if a form of claim for enrolment has been left for him at his habitation, or delivered to him, or sent to him by post—

(a)fill in the form and sign it in accordance with the Act and the Regulations, forthwith after the form has been received by him, and

(b) forthwith deliver the form so filled up to a Collector engaged in the Canvass made for the purposes of the new Rolls or forthwith send it by post to the Registrar for the Subdivision for which he claims to be enrolled.

(ii.) Any person who commits any contravention of this Regulation shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding Two pounds.

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by J. Kemp, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.8096.—Price 3d.