Elections Acts Amendment Act of 1944 (8 Geo Vi No. 6) (Qld)

80 ELECTIONS. Elections Ads Amendment Act. 8 GEO. VI. No. 6, DASH, HON. J., GRATUITY. See PART n. DESTITUTE PERSONS-INTERSTATE RELIEF. See MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. DINGOES AND MARSUPIAL DESTRUCTION. See LAND. DISCHARGED SOLDIER SETTLEMENT. See BANKING. DISEASES IN STOCK. See STOCK. ELECTIONS. Elections Acts Amendment Act of 1944. 8 N G o B . O. 6. VI. An Act to Amend" The Elections Acts, 1915 to THB ELlIcrIOl'IS 1943," in certain particulars. ACTS AlIlINDlII1INT ACT OF [ASSENTED TO 27TH NOVEMBER, 1944.] 1944. B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- Short title 1. This Act may be cited as "The Elections Acts : ~ ~ struction. Amendment :4ct of 1944," and shall be r~ad as one with *" The Electwns Acts, 1915 to 1943," herem referred to as the Principal Act. Collective The Principal Act and this Act may be collectively title. cited as " The Elections Acts, 1915 to 1944." Amendments of the Principal Act. Amendment 2. Section seven of the Principal Act is amended of 8. 7. as follows : - (a) In the first paragraph thereof the words " before some justice" are repealed. * 6 G. 5 No. 13 and amending Acts, v. 3, pp. 233 et 8eq.

ELECTIONS. 81 1944. ELections Acts Amendment Act. (b) The following paragraph is inserted after the first paragraph thereof, namely:- "Such solemn declaration shall be made and subscribed before a justice of the peace or, in the case of a presiding officer or poll clerk appointed in respect of a polling-place at which a justice of the peace is not available, before an elector." (c) The last paragraph thereof is repealed and the following paragraphs are inserted in lieu thereof, namely:- "Every presiding officer or poll clerk shall, upon making and subscribing such solemn declaration, forth- with transmit same to the returning officer of the district concerned. Every returning officer shall, within seven days after the date of the issue of the writ, transmit to the Under Secretary, Department of tTustice, the solemn declaration made and subscribed by such returning officer under this section and all solemn declarations made and subscribed by presiding officers and poll clerks and received by him up to the date of such transmission and shall thereafter from time to time (but not later than seven days after the receipt thereof) transmit to the said Under Secretarv all solemn declarations made and subscribed by presiding officers or poll clerks and received by him. Moreover the returning officer shall accompany the solemn declaration or declarations so transmitted with a statement in writing of all presiding officers and poll clerks from whom he has not received solemn declarations made and subscribed under this section up to the date of such transmission." 3. Paragraph (a) of section nine of the Principal Amendment Act is repealed and the following paragraph, lettered (a), Of8. 9. is inserted in lieu thereof, namely :- " (a) Who being a natural-born or naturalised subject has lived within the Commonwealth of Australia for a continuous period of six months, and has lived in Queensland for a continuous period of three months; and". 4. In I')ubsection one of section lOA of the Principal Amendment Act, the words and brackets" (both such periods being, in Qf 8. lOA., the case of any such member or discharged member who is . a naturalised subject, after naturalisation)" are repealed.

82 ELECTIONS. Ele'ctions Ads Amendment Act. 8 GEO. VI. No. 6, Amendment 5. In subsection one of section lOB of the Principal ofs. lOB. Act the words and brackets " (both such periods being, in the case of any such person who is a naturalised subject, after naturalisation)" are repealed. Amendment 6. The first paragraph of section eleven of the of s. 11. Principal Act is amended- (i.) By repealing the words "or subject to be sentenced" ; and (ii.) By inserting the words "for one year or longer" after the word" iIUprisonment ". Amendment 7. Section fourteen of the Principal Act is amended ofs, 14. as follows : - (i.) In subsection one thereof the word " quarterly" is repealed. (ii.) Subsections three and four thereof are repealed and the following subsections, numbered three ~nd four, are inserted in lieu thereof, namely :- " (3.) Supplemental rolls of all names entitled under this Act to be added to the rolls since the previous annual roll shall be prepared, and, wherever practicable, printed immediately previous to a general election or to a by- election in any particular district or at any time whenever the Minister so directs: Provided that if it is not practicable to print such rolls they may be written or type-written in the form of rolls. The names in all supplemental rolls shall be placed, together in alphabetical order and the numbers in each such roll shall follow in consecutive arithmetical order after the numbers in the last preceding annual roll. The annual roll, with the supplemental rolls for the district concerned, shall be the existing roll for that district within the meaning and for the purposes of this Act. (4.) The regulations may provide for the printing, as addenda to the supplemental rolls, of the names of all persons erased from the roll since the publication of the last preceding annual roll." Amendment 8. The following paragraph is added to section of s. 26. twenty-six of the Principal Act, namely :- " Penalties not exceeding the prescribed maximum amount of penalty may, with the consent of the offender, be imposed by the Principal Electoral Officer for breaches

ELECTIONS. 83 1944. Ebections Acts Amendment Act. of the regulations relating to compulsory enrolment of electors, and the compulsory transfer or change of electors from one roll to another roll, and the regulationsmay prescribe the procedure for the determina- tion by the Principal Electoral Officer of alleged breaches of the regulations relating to compulsory enrolment of electors, and the compulsory transfer or change of electors from one roll to another roll, and for the recovery of penalties imposed by him in respect of any such breaches found by him to have been committed." 9. Paragraph (b) of the proviso to section thirty- Amendment five of the Principal Act is repealed and the following of s. 35. paragraph is inserted in lieu thereof, namely : - "(b) Any person whose name appears on the roll at the time of an election and- (i.) Who is on polling-day under sentence of imprisonment; or (ii.) Who is then subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in section eleven or section 11A of this Act,- shall be disqualified from voting." 10. Subsection one of section 35A of the Principal Ammdment Act is amended by repealing the words "quarterly or". of s. 35A (I). 11. Section 35B of the Principal Act is amended as Amendment follows :_ of s. Ma. (i.) Subsections one, two, and three thereof are repealed and the following subseotions, numbered respectively one, two and three, are inserted in lieu thereof, namely:- "(1.) Subject to this seotion, any person entitled, pursuant to section lOA or section lOB of this Act, to vote as an elector at an election for a district may- (i.) If such person is a member of His Majesty's Naval, Military, or Air Forces, or a female serving in any capacity with or with any· service forming part of such forces, including service as medical practitioner or nurse or masseuse or otherwise, or a person employed in any capacity in sea-going service on a ship other than a ship belonging to His Majesty's Naval Forces, at any time after the issue of

84 ELECTIONS. Elections Acts Amendment Act. 8 GEO. VI. No. 6, the writ and before six o'clock in the after- noon of the day immediately preceding polling- day, vote before a returning officer, an electoral registrar, or a presiding officer specially appointed by a returning officer to take votes under this section before polling- day; or (ii.) Between the hours of eight 0' clock in the forenoon and six 0' clock in the afternoon of polling-day, vote at any polling-place. (2.) In every such case the person so claiming to vote shall- (i.) If such person is a member of His Majesty's Naval, Military, or Air Forces or a female serving in any capacity with or with any service forming part of such forces, including service as medical practitioner or nurse or masseuse or otherwise, or a person employed in any capacity in sea-going service on a ship other than a ship belonging to His Majesty's Naval Forces, deliver to the returning officer, electoral registrar, or presiding officer before whom such person claims to vote a declaration in the prescribed form made and signed by such person before and attested by a commissioned officer of His Majesty's Naval, Military, or Air Forces or an officer of the ship on which such person is employed in sea-going service; or (ii.) Make and sign a declaration in the prescribed form before the returning officer, electoral registrar, or presiding officer before whom such person claims to vote. Before a presiding officer permits a discharged member of His Majesty's Naval, Military, or Air Forces, or any female who has been discharged from service in any capacity with or with a service forming part of such Forces, including service as medical practitioner or nurse or masseuse or otherwise, or any person who has been discharged from his employment in sea-going service on a ship other than a ship belonging to His Majesty's Naval Forces, to make such declaration before him, such presiding officer shall require such discharged member, female, or person to produce his or her discharge.

ID44. ELECTIONS. Elections Acts Amendm.ent Act. (3.) No person claiming to vote under this section shall receive a ballot-paper unless and until- (i.) If such person is a member of His Majesty's Naval, Military, or Air Forces, or a female serving in any capacity with or with any service forming part of such forces, including service as medical practitioner or nurse or masseuse or otherwise, or a person employed in sea-going service on a ship other than a ship belonging to His Majesty's Naval Forces, he or she has delivered to the returning officer, electoral registrar, or presiding officer before whom he or she claims to vote the prescribed declaration made and signed before and attested by a commissioned officer of His Majesty'R Naval, Military, or Air Forces or an officer of the ship on which such person is employed in sea-going service, and such returning officer, electoral registrar or presiding officer is satisfied that such declara- tion has been duly made, signed and attested; or (ii.) He or she has made and signed the prescribed declaration before and to the satisfaction of the returning officer, electoral registrar or presiding officer before whom such person claims to vote and has, if thereunto required by subsection two of this section, produced his or her discharge to the presiding officer." (ii.) In subsection four thereof the words" presiding officer" are repealed and the words "returning officer, electoral registrar, or presiding officer before whom the. vote is claimed " are inserted in lieu thereof. (iii.) In subsection six thereof the words" presiding officer" are repealed and the words" returning officer, electoral registrar, or presiding officer before whom the vote was claimed " are inserted in lieu thereof. (iv.) In subsection seven thereof, after the words <, material particular" insert the words "or who, knowing any such declaration to be false in a material particular attests same or who attests any such declara- tion when he is not qualified so to do." 8'5

ELECTIONS. Elections Acts Amendment Act. 8 GEO. VI. No. 6. (v.) In subsection eight thereof, after the words "this section" insert the words "upon polling-day," and add to the said subsection the following paragraph~ namely:- "A returning officer, electoral registrar or presiding officer shall, from day to day, sort all envelopes containing votes recorded before him under this section before polling-day under their proper electoral districts, and enclose all such envelopes for the same district in an outer envelope, and transmit the same, properly addressed, by post or otherwise to the several returning officers of· the districts for which the voters have recorded such votes. He shall also, immediately after six o'clock in the afternoon of the day immed~ ately preceding polling-day, inform each returning officer concerned, if necessary by telegram, of the total number of persons who voted under this section before polling-day, for the district concerned." (vi.) Subsection nine thereof is repealed and the following subsections, numbered nine and 9A, are inserted in lieu thereof, namely :- " (9.) The returning officer shall, until the scrutiny~ hold unopened in separate custody every envelope received by him and immediately containing a vote recorded under this section. He may at any time and shall before opening or allowing any other person to open any such envelope at the scrutiny, number each such envelope in regular arithmetical sequence, beginning with the figure "1" and prefix each number with the letter" S." At the scrutiny he shall examine the declaration of the voter, and if it is in order and he is satisfied that the voter is a person entitled, pursuant to section lOA or section lOB of this Act, to vote as an elector, he shall open the envelope and without unfolding the ballot- paper, mark the same number, prefixed by the letter " S " upon the right-hand upper corner of the front page of the ballot-paper and fold it down and secure it with gum so that the number and. letter are effectually concealed, and shall place such b~ llot- paper in a ballot- box. He shall set aside for separate custody the envelop~ s immediately containing the ballot-papers. If the right to vote is not thereby established, he shall reject the vote, but shall not unfasten the envelope. He shall set the same aside for separate custody.

ELECTIONS. 87 1944. Elections Acts Amendmen.t Act. No such ballot-paper shall be allowed at the scrutiny which is not enclosed in an envelope endorsed with the prescribed declaration. When at any time during the scrutiny the returning officer has dealt with all the envelopes in every packet which has then been delivered to him, he shall open the ballot-box and count the votes as in other cases; and shall so proceed from day to day until all the ballot- papers have come to hand, or until the day on which no further ballot-papers are to be counted. (9A.) If there is time conveniently to do so the returning officer shall on all copies of rolls issued by him for use at the election make a note against the name of every elector who has recorded a vote under this section before polling-day and shall, as far as practicable, prepare a list in alphabetical order of the names of persons, other than electors, who have recorded votes under this section before polling-day and furnish a certified copy of such list to each presiding officer in his district. If there is not time conveniently to note the rolls and/or to prepare and furnish lists as aforesaid, the returning officer shall, as far as may be practicable and in such manner as he thinks fit, advise all presiding officers of the names of electors or other persons who have recorded votes under this section before polling- day." 12. The following proviso is added to subsection Amendment one of section thirty-six of the Principal Act, namely : - of B. 36. " Provided further that where a writ directed to a returning officer cannot be forwarded so as to reach such returning officer on the day of its issue, the Minister or, if such writ was issued by the Speaker, the Speaker shall notify such returning officer by telegram or otherwise of the issue of such writ and of the day and place of nomination and of the day of polling fixed by such writ." 13. Section thirty-eight of the Principal Act is Repeal of repealed and the following section is inserted in lieu B an .3 d 8 n . ew thereof, namely :- "[38.] (1.) The returning officer shall- Nomina~ ion (a) Upon receipt of the writ or, where he is : ~BP~I~ ­ notified by the Minister Or the Speaker of publicly the issue of the writ before the receipt thereof, notified. upon receipt of such notification, forthwith

" 88 ELECTIONS. Elections Acts Amendment Act. 8 GEO. VI. No. 6~ give public notice of the nomination day and place of nomination and of the day of polling,. and of the several polling-places and of the date up to which additional polling-places may be appointed or existing polling-places may be cancelled, and of a convenient place within the district, to be named by the returning officer, as the place of nomination at which he will be present between the hours of nine 0' clock in the morning and twelve o'clock noon on nomination day to receive nomination papers; and (b) As soon as possible give public notice of any polling-place appointed after the issue of the writ. (2.) The returning officer shall endorse upon the writ the day on which he receives it, and also, if he was notified by the Minister or the Speaker of the issue of the writ before the receipt thereof, the day upon which he received such notification, and shall attach such notification to the writ." Amendment of s. 41. 14. Subsection one of section forty-one is amended as follows :- (i.) In the first paragraph thereof, insert after the word "election" the words "and shall consent to such nomination." (ii.) In the second paragraph thereof the words "and signed by the persons nominating him" are repealed and the words "signed by the persons nominating him, and signed by such person as consenting to the nomination" are inserted in lieu thereof. eAfms. e6n2dAm.ent follow 1 s 5 : . - Section 62A of the Principal Act is amended as (i.) In subsection one thereof the words "or who, pursuant to section 35B of this Act, has voted before polling-day" are inserted before the words "in respect of the election in question." (ii.) In the first paragraph of subsection three thereof the words" until the day preceding the day named in the writ for its return" are repealed and the words " until he is permitted by this subsection to allow and count votes recorded under this section," are inserted in lieu thereof.

ELECTIONS. 89 1944. Ebec.tions Acts Amendment Act. (iii.) The following sub-paragraph is inserted after sub-paragraph (ii.) of the second paragraph of subsection three thereof, namely :- "or (iii.) By voting pursuant to section 35B of this Act before polling day." (iv.) The said subsection three is further amended by repealing the words" on the day preceding the day named in the writ for its return" and by inserting the words" after he shall have received, examined and counted all absent votes of which he has had notice or on the second day preceding the day named in the writ for its return, whichever shall first happen," in lieu thereof. 16. Section sixty-nine of the Principal Act is Amendment amended as follows :_ of s. 6\1. (i.) Subsections two, three and four thereof are repealed and the following subsections, numbered two and three, are inserted in lieu thereof, namely :- "(2.) In every such case the person claiming to vote shall answer the questions following, that is to say- (i.) For what electoral district are you qualified to vote? (ii.) What is your surname? (iii.) What is your christian name in full ? (iv.) What is your occupation? (v.) What is your full address on the roll for the electoral district for which you claim to vote? (vi.) What is your present address? and shall endorse in the prescribed form the answers to such questions upon an envelope and sign the same. (3.) The presiding officer at any polling-place at which any person claims to vote under this section shall not deliver a ballot-paper to such person until he has obtained from such person an envelope endorsed to his satisfaction with the answers to such questions and signed by such person and such person has, in the presence and hearing of such presiding officer, declared that the answers to such questions are true and that the signature is his.

;90 ELECTIONS. Elections Acts Amendment Act. 8 GEO. VI. No. 6, Subject to such person so declaring the presiding officer shall witness the signature." (ii.) In subsection eight thereof the words" put to him under this section" are repealed and the words "which he is required by this section to answer" are inserted in lieu of such repealed words. New s. 70A. 17. A new section, 70A, is inserted after section seventy of the Principal Act, as follows:- bpVoeofltloiirnnegg- day belief " s [7 o 0 r A c .] onAvnicytieolnesc, towrilwl hboe, bpyrerveeanstoend ofrfohmis vroetliinggioaust o obe n flri a ee c flis c g. o i u o n us t afonrymstimreespeocntivpeloyllinpgr- edsacyri,beudpoan cperretsiefinctaitneg firnomthae minister of the religious denomination of which such elector is an adherent and a solemn declaration made and subscribed by the elector before a justice may, subject to the regulations, be permitted to vote at any time after the issue of the writ and before polling-day, and the provisions of section seventy of this Act and regulations thereunder shall, .mutatis mutandis (with any necessary amendments or additions thereto as may be prescribed), apply and extend accordingly. For the purposes of this section the term " Minister of the religious denomination" means a minister of the religious denomination concerned, whose name is for the time being registered under *" The Marriage Acts, 1864 to 1928, " in the register of ministers for celebrating marriages as a minister of such religious denomina- tion, or in the case of a minister of a religious denomination to which such lastmentioned Acts do not extend, whose name is recorded by the Registrar-General as the person responsible for transmitting to a registrar of births, deaths and marriages the original of the certificate prescribed by such Acts." Amendment 18. Section seventy-one of the Principal Act is of B. 71. amended as follows : - (i.) The first paragraph of subsection one thereof is repealed and the following paragraph is inserted in lieu thereof, namely :- " Any elector who will be within the State but who- (i.) By reason of illness or infirmity or approaching . maternity will be unable on polling-day to attend at a polling-place to vote; or * 28 V. No. 15 and amending Acts, v. 6, pp. 24 et 8eg.

ELECTIONS. 1944. Ewctions Acts Amendtmernt Act. (ii.) Throughout the hours of polling on polling- day will not be within five miles by the nearest practicable route of a polling-place, may, after the issue of the writ for the election and before six 0' clock in the afternoon of the day immediately preceding polling-day, apply in the prescribed form to a returning officer or an electoral registrar (whether the returning officer or an electoral registrar for the district for which the vote is claimed or for any other district) for a postal vote certificate." (ii.) In the third paragraph of the said subsection one the words "the returning officer or an electoral registrar for the district or " are repealed and the words "any returning officer or electoral registrar, or by a justice of the peace or by" are inserted in lieu thereof. (iii.) Subsection two thereof is repealed and the following subsection is inserted in lieu thereof, namely :- "(2.) Upon receipt of the application, the returning officer or electoral registrar (whether the returning officer or electoral registrar for the district for which the vote is claimed or for any other district), if satisfied that the applicant, if enrolled, is entitled to vote under this section shall grant a certificate, which shall be duly endorsed upon an envelope, and shall be in the prescribed form." . (iv.) Subsection three thereof is repealed and the following subsection is inserted in lieu thereof, namely:- " (3.) Subject to subsection two of this section, a returning officer or electoral registrar to whom an elector applies for a postal vote certificate shall deliver or cause to be sent to such elector- (a) The certificate endorsed upon an envelopt:l; and (b) An envelope addressed to the returning officer for the district for which such elector claims to vote; and (c) A postal ballot-paper. Every postal ballot-paper shall be of such material and opacity that the voter may effectually conceal the name of the person for whom he has voted, and shall be in the prescribed form but when issued shall not bear a postal ballot number. 91

92 ELECTIONS. Elections Acts Amendnnent Act. 8 GEO. VI. No. 6, No elector who has received any such certificate shall be entitled to vote except by means of a postal ballot-paper." (v.) Subsection four thereof is repealed and the following subsection is inserted in lieu thereof~ namely;- " (4.) Every returning officer and electoral registrar shall keep a record in the prescribed form showing the prescribed particulars in respect of postal vote certificates issued by him. He shall also endorse the application to the effect that a certificate has issued and sign the endorsement. A returning officer or electoral registrar as soon as practicable after the issue by him of a certificate shall forward to the returning officer of the district to which it relates the application together with a copy of the details contained in his record. Upon receipt of an application for a postal vote certificate for his district (including applications received from an electoral registrar or another returning officer), the returning officer shall number each application in regular arith- metical sequence, commencing with the figure " 1 " and prefix each number with the letter" P." Such letter and number shall be referred to as the postal ballot number and shall be used as hereinafter provided." (vi.) In subsection five thereof the words" justice of the peace or" are inserted after the words "In the presence of any". (vii.) Subsection 8A thereof is repealed. (viii.) Subsection nine thereof is repealed and the following subsection is inserted in lieu thereof, namely;- " (9.) At the scrutiny the returning officer shall produce, unopened, all postal voters' envelopes in respect of his district received by him by post or delivered to him or to an assistant returning officer or to any presiding officer for the district and every outer envelope which was- . (a) Delivered on polling-day before six o'clock in the afternoon to such returning officer or to any assistant returning officer or presiding officer for the district; or (b) Received by post by such returning officer before six o'clock in the afternoon of polling- day; or

ELECTIONS. 1944. Elections Acts Amendment Act. (c) Received by post by such returning officer and on which the postmark clearly indicates that such envelope was posted on or before polling-day, shall be opened and the enclosure shall be dealt with, as follows : - (i.) The returning officer shall produce the postal voters' applications; (ii.) The returning officer, without opening the envelope endorsed with the certificate, shall enter thereon the postal ballot number and shall compare the signature of the voter with the signature to the application and allow the scrutineers who are present to inspect the same and shall determine whether the signature on such envelope is that of the applicant; (iii.) If the returning officer is satisfied that the voter is enrolled and if the vote is allowed, the returning officer shall open the envelope and shall, without unfolding the ballot-paper, mark the postal ballot number upon the right- hand corner of the front page of the ballot- paper and fold it down and secure it with gum so that the number is effectually concealed and shall place the postal ballot- paper in the ballot-box. He shall also forthwith attach the said envelope by gum or otherwise to the application relating thereto; (iv.) No postal ballot-paper shall be allowed at the scrutiny which is not enclosed in an envelope endorsed with the certificate duly signed, attested,and dated under this Act; (v.) If the returning officer disallows a vote, then the envelope endorsed with the certificate unopened, and the application relating thereto shall be attached together with gum or other- wise and shall be set apart for separate custody. No outer envelope shall be opened at the scrutiny unless it was received by post or delivered as prescribed by paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of this subsection, and every such unopened envelope shall be set aside for separate custody."

94 ELECTIONS. Elections Acts Amendment Act. 8 GEO. VI. No. 6, 1944. Amendment 19. In subsection three of section 7lB of the o()f s. 7lB (3). Principal Act the words " or by a justice of the peace" are inserted before the words " or by an elector". New s. 710 inserted. 20. The following section, numbered 710, is inserted after section 7lB of the Principal Act, namely :- Electors who are "[710.] Any elector who, by reason of the rules of members of any religious organisation, community, order or associa- erenlcigloioseuds tion of which he is a member, will be prevented from o()rders. voting, either before or on polling-day, otherwise than by means of a postal vote may, after the issue of the writ for the election and before six 0' clock in the afternoon of the day immediately preceding polling-day, apply to the returning officer for a postal vote certificate. Such application shall be in the prescribed form and shall include or be accompanied by a certificate from a minister of the religious denomination of which such elector is an adherent and a solemn declaration made and subscribed by the elector before a justice, which certificate and declaration shall be in the forms respectively prescribed. Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, section seventy-one of this Act and regulations thereunder shall, mutatis mutandis, (with any necessary amendments or additions thereto as may be prescribed) apply and extend accordingly. For the purposes of this section the term " Minister of the religious denomination" means a minister of the religious denomination concerned, whose name is for the time being registered under *" The Marriage Acts, 1864 to 1928," in the register of ministers for celebrating marriages as a minister of such religious denomination, or in the case of a minister of a religious denomination to which such lastmentioned Acts do not extend, whose name is recorded by the Registrar-General as the person responsible for transmitting to a registrar of births, deaths and marriages the original of the certificate prescribed by such Acts." Amendment 21. Section ninety-three of the Principal Act is of s. 93. amended as follows : - (a) The words "with the writ directed to him" are repealed therein. * 28 V. No. 15 and amending Acts, v. 6, pp. 24 et Beg.

ELECTIONS-ELECTRICITY. 9 GEO. VI. No. 13, 1945. State Electricity Oommission, Etc., Act. (b) The following paragraphs are added thereto:- " The writ of election and such certified copy of the writ shall be transmitted to the returning officer to whom the writ is directed separately and in such a manner as to avoid as far as may be the risk of such writ and copy being lost or destroyed together." If a writ of election is lost or destroyed at any time before it is returned to the Governor or the Speaker, the copy thereof certified by the Governor or the Speaker pursuant to this section shall become and be the writ of election for all purposes of this Act, and in such event the Governor or the Speaker shall make and certify a further copy of such writ which shall be transmitted to the returning officer." 95 ELECTRICITY. (1) The State Electricity Oommission Acts and Another Act Amendment Act of 1945 (2) The Regional Electric Authorities Act of 1945 .. 9 Geo. VI. No. 13 9 Geo. VI. No. '16 An Act to Amend" The State Electricity Commission 9 GEO. VI. Acts, 1937 to 1941," and "The Electric ' rH~ Os! ! ~ E F]LECTBIOITY Light and Power Acts, 1896 to 1939," each CX~T~Is:i~ N in certain particulars, and for other purposes.. A~ ~ ~ E~ M: - ~ i ACT 01/ 1945. [AssENTED TO 5TH APRIL, 1945.] B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,. by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- PART l.-PRELIMINARY • PART 1.- PRELIMINARY. 1. This Act may be cited as " The State Electric'tty Short title. Commission Acts and Another Act Amendment Act of 1945." 2. This Act is divided into Parts, as follows : - PART l.-PRELIMINARY ; Parts of Act. PART H.-AMENDMENTS OF *" THE STATE ELEC- TRICITY COMMISSION ACTS, 1937 TO 1941 " ; t" PART lH.-AMENDMENTS OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER ACTS, 1896 TO 1939."· * 1 G. 6 No. 26 and amending Acts, 1937 Sess. v., pp. 16505 et Beq. t 60 V. No. 24 and amending Acts, v. 3, pp. 306 et Beq~