Election of Senators Amendment Act 1984 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ELECTION OF SENATORS.

No. 86 of 1984.

AN ACT to amend the Election of Senators Act 1903.

[Assented to 29 November 1984.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Election of 2,o,r=pal

Senators Amendment Act 1984. Act.

(2) In this Act the Election of Senators Act 1903 119clbracs). 1 / of

is referred to as the principal Act. Amended;Y of

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Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the day

on which it is assented to by the Governor.

Section 2

repealed and 3. Section 2 of the principal Act is repealed and

substituted, the following section is substituted

Power to C'

fix dates. 2. For the purpose of the election of Senators for this State to the Senate of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, the Governor may, by proclamation, fix the dates for

(a) the close of the rolls;

(b) the nomination of candidates;

(c) the polling; and

(d) the return of the writ,

and so far as any of such times may be men- tioned in the writ for the election, they shall be in accordance with the times fixed by such proclamation. ".

Section 3

repealed and 4. Section 3 of the principal Act is repealed and

substituted. the following section is substituted

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within which	3. (1) The date fixed for the close of the (2) Subject to subsection (3) the date fixed for the nomination of the candidates shall not be less than 11 nor more than 28 days after the date of the writ.
dates may
be fixed.	rolls shall be 7 days after the date of the writ.

Where a candidate for an election dies, after being nominated and before 12 o'clock noon on the day fixed by the writ as the date of nomination for the election, the day fixed as the day of nomination for the election shall, except for the purposes of subsection (4), be taken to be the day next succeeding the day so fixed.

(3)

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(4)

The date fixed for the polling shall not

be less than 22 days nor more than 30 days

after the date of nomination.

(5) The day fixed for the polling shall be a

Saturday.

(6) The date fixed for the return of the writ shall not be more than 90 days after the date of the writ. ".

5.    Section 4 of the principal Act is repealed and =feld4tind

the following section is substituted— substituted.

4. The writ shall bear the date of the day Eigitni

of issue and the date fixed for the close of the writ.

rolls, the nomination of candidates, the

polling and the return of the writ shall be

specified therein. ".

6.    Section 7 of the principal Act is amended by amended.

deleting "eight o'clock in the evening" and sub-

stituting the following-

" six o'clock in the evening ".