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

STATUTORY RULES.

1910. No. 23.

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 second day of March, One thousand nine hundred and ten.

DUDLEY,

Governor‑General.

By His Excellency's Command,

R. W. BEST,

For Minister of State for Home Affairs.

The Regulations under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902‑1909 and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906‑1909, being Statutory Rules 1910, No. 2, are amended as follows :—

(a) By inserting in Part I., Electoral Regulations, after Regulation 26, the following Regulation :—

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" 26a. The official mark for the authentication of ballot‑papers shall be a water mark in the paper thereof, consisting of a representation of a shield having therein the letters C A intertwined," and

(b)By inserting in Part II., Referendum Regulations, after Regulation 31, the following Regulation :—

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" 31a. The official mark for the authentication of referendum ballot‑papers shall be the official mark prescribed for electoral ballot‑papers."

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