Commonwealth Electoral and Referendum Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
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, do hereby certify that, on account of
urgency, the following Regulation under the
Dated the fourth 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.
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Statutory Rules 1912, No. 161, are amended by the insertion, after Regulation 24, of the following Regulation:—
24a. (1) For the purposes of any authorized official inquiry the Divisional Returning Officer may, if so directed by the Chief Electoral Officer, and in accordance with the instructions of the Chief Electoral Officer, open any parcel containing any certified list of voters used in his Division, or any certified copy of the Roll of the Division used at the scrutiny of absent votes, and may take out and examine the certified list or certified copy of the roll and take a copy thereof; and shall then forthwith replace the certified list or certified copy of the Roll in a parcel and fasten, seal, and indorse it as required by the Chief Electoral Officer.
(2) The Divisional Returning Officer shall not mark, alter, or in any way deface, or permit any other person to mark, alter, or deface, any list or copy of a Roll so taken out, and shall be responsible for every such list or copy of a Roll being replaced in the same condition as when it was taken out.
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