Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 86.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL (WAR-TIME) ACT 1917.

I, SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations, under the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Act 1917, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twelfth day of April, 1917.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

for Minister of State for Home and Territories.

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Amendment of Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 74.)

Amendment of Regulation 4.

1. Regulation 4 of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Regulation is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation, a form of declaration made by a member of the Forces serving outside Australia who claims to vote under Part II. of the Act shall not be treated as informal by reason only of any one or more of the following divergences from the form contained in that sub-regulation, namely:—

(a) the omission, from the body of the declaration, of the surname and Christian names at full length of the member, provided that there are added beneath the signature of the voter the words ‘(Full Christian names and surname)’;

(b) the omission, from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (3) of the Directions of all words from and after the words ‘and addressed to the Commonwealth Returning Officer,’ provided they are inserted in the Directions issued by the Commonwealth Returning Officer to authorized witnesses; and

(c) the inserting on the form of declaration of the Australian address on military or naval enrolment and the State and (if known) the Commonwealth Electoral Division of the member of the Forces.”

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Amendment of Regulation 7.

2. Regulation 7 of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Regulations is amended by inserting after the words “The Commonwealth Electoral Officer” (last occurring) the words “or an officer thereto authorized by him.”

Amendment of Regulation 11.

3. The, form contained in sub-regulation (1) of Regulation 11 of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Regulations is amended as follows:—

(a) by inserting after the words “(here insert occupation)” the words “being enrolled as an elector of the Commonwealth ”;

(b) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following paragraph namely:—

“(3) The territory in which I was born became part of (here insert Germany or Austria, as the case-may be) after the date upon which I arrived in Australia”;

(c) by re-numbering the existing paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and

(d) by adding to the form a note in the following words:—

“N.B.—In the case of a woman who was born in an enemy country and who became a naturalized British subject by virtue of her marriage with a natural-born or a naturalized British subject, paragraph (4) should be amended and the facts set out. The name of the husband and the date and place of marriage and a statement whether the husband is a natural-born or naturalized British subject, and, if naturalized, the date and place of naturalization should be given.”

Amendment of Regulation 12.

4. Regulation 12 of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(4) The Divisional Returning Officer shall retain in his custody all applications made to or received by him in pursuance of the last preceding regulation.”

Amendment of Regulation 13.

5. The form contained in Regulation 13 of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Regulations is amended as follows:—

(a) by inserting after the words “(here insert occupation)” the words “being enrolled as an elector of the Commonwealth”; and

(b) by adding to the form a note in the following words:—

“N. B.—In the case of a woman who was born in an enemy country and who became a naturalized British subject by virtue of her marriage with a natural-born or a naturalized British subject, paragraph (2) should be amended and the facts set out. The name of the husband, the date, and place of marriage and a statement whether the husband is a natural-born or naturalized British subject, and, if naturalized, the date and place of naturalization should be given.”

 

Amendment of Regulation 13.

6. Regulation 13 of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) Upon the issue by the District Commandant of a Military District or an officer thereto authorized by him, of a certificate pursuant to an application made under sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation, the Commandant or officer as the case may be shall forward the application for the certificate to the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State for retention by that officer.”

7. After Regulation 14 of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Regulations the following Regulation is inserted:—

Retention of certificates produced to the Presiding Officer.

“14a.(1) Upon the production to a Presiding Officer on polling day of a certificate issued under Regulation 12 or Regulation 14 of these Regulations the Presiding Officer shall retain the certificate.

(2) All certificates retained by the Presiding Officer in pursuance of sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation shall, after close of the polling, he forwarded by the Presiding Officer to the Assistant Returning Officer for transmission to the Divisional Returning Officer by whom they shall be retained.”

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