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

STATUTORY RULES.

1913. No. 200.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1902–1911 AND THE REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) ACT 1906–1912.

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 1902–1911, and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906–1912, should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated the eleventh day of July, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOSEPH COOK,

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

Statutory Rules 1912, No. 161, and 1913, No. 199, are amended by the insertion, after Regulation 24a, of the following Regulation:—

24b. (1) Each candidate for a contested election for the House of Representatives held on the 31st of May, 1913, shall be entitled to appoint, in writing or by telegram, one person to be present throughout the inquiry. Such person shall be known as a scrutineer, and shall, if he complies with the requirements of this Regulation, be entitled to receive from the Commonwealth an allowance of One pound one shilling for each day of eight hours during which he is in attendance at the inquiry. The inquiry shall be conducted in the presence of such scrutineers appointed under this Regulation as choose to attend.

(2) A scrutineer shall be entitled to make a record of any names so marked on any certified lists of voters used for the purposes of the elections as to make it appear that the persons concerned have voted more than once at the elections, but shall not disclose any such information obtained by him at the inquiry until the conclusion thereof, and then only to the candidate by whom he was appointed. A scrutineer shall not otherwise disclose any knowledge officially acquired by him in connexion with the inquiry.

(3) The Divisional Returning Officer shall fix the date of the commencement of the inquiry, and shall give each candidate concerned at least three days’ notice of such date by telegram addressed to him at his place of residence as set forth in the nomination form lodged by such candidate.

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(4) Before the commencement of the inquiry each scrutineer shall make a declaration in the following form: —

Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902–1911.

Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906–1912.

Statutory Rule No. 200, 1913.

I,  , do hereby promise and undertake to comply with the requirements of Regulation 24b in relation to the obligations imposed upon scrutineers, a copy of which I acknowledge to have received.

 Signature

Dated the  day of  19

Witness to signature

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