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

STATUTORY RULES

1911. No. 48.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1902-1909 AND THE REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) ACT 1906-1909.

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 and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906-1909 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated the twenty-fourth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

KING O’MALLEY.

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

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The Regulations under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902-1909 and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906-1909, being Statutory Rules 1910 No. 137, are amended by inserting in Part II., Electoral and Referendum Regulations, after Regulation 17J (1), the following Regulation:—

“17k.—(1) No person shall place on any application or form of application for a postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper any word, mark, or sign connecting the form with or suggesting its connexion with any person (other than the applicant or an official) or with any association or organisation.

Penalty: Five pounds.

(2) A Divisional Returning Officer shall decline to receive or act on any application for a postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper on which any such word, mark, or sign appears.”

 

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