Electoral Act 1877 (SA)

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO ET QUAI)RAGESIbIO PRIM0

No. 82.

An Act to arlnend the El~ctornl Act.

[Assented to, 21st I)ccembcr, 1877.]

LEAS i t is expedient to afford further facilities to electors preamble.

WHEY who have removed from one electoral district to another electoral district, to vote for the election of Members of' the House

of Assembly-Be it Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

person namcd therein sl~all be entitled to have his name inserted on the roll for thc last mentioned district, according to the tenor of

1. This Ac$ may he cited as The Electoral Act,, 1877." short title.

2. The section numbered 48 of the Electoral Act shall be, and Repeal.

the same is hereby repealed. 1

3. Any person whose name may for the time being be upon any Transfer of electore from one electoral

electoral roll of any district, and who shall have bun& flde changed district to another.

his rmidcnce into another electoral district, shall be entitled to h v e

his name inserted upon the eicctorsl roll of such other district,

and he may, on ~vritten application, in form in the Schedule A,

obtain from the Returning Officer of the district on the electoral

roll of which his narnc is, a certificate in the form in the

Schedule B addressed to thc Returning Oficer of the clistrict in

\vhich he shad1 be thcn rc~sident, and upon clelivclry of such certificate

to the lteturning Officw. to whom the snrrlc is addres,sed, accom-

panied with a declaration ill the f o r n ~ in the Schedule C, the

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of such certificate, and the Returning Officer of such district shall inscrt the name of such person accordingly, and shall, under thc heading, "Date of Registration," insert the date on which such person was registered in such first mentioned district as appearing in sucli certificate, and thereupon such person shall be entitled to vote in like manner, as though his name had been originally inserted on such last mentioned roll: Provided that the Returning Officer shall not insert such name after thc issue of any writ for the election of a member for his district until after the return of such writ.

R e t d n g Officers to

initial alterations.	4. Every Returning Officer, upon giving such certificate, shall strike the name of the person to whom the same is issued off the electoral roll for his district, and shall make a memorandum
against such name as follows :-G Certificate to
District," and shall initial the same; and every lteturning Officer inserting the name of any person upon the elcctoral roll of his district by virtue of such certificate shall mdzc a memorandum
against such name as follows:-" Certificate fram
District," and shall initial the same.

Si&g false state-

ment misdcmcanor. 5. If any person shall sign any application in the fbrm contained in the Schedule A which may contain any untrue ststcmcnt, he shall bc deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviciion, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted, to be imprisoned with or without hard labor, for a term not cx- ceeding two years.

H O U ~ of polling. 6. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 64 of the said

" 'l'he Electoral Act," the voting for the election of Members of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly at each polling place shall be held before the Returning Officer or his Ilcputy, and shall commence at eight o'clock in the forenoon, and shall finally close at five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby asscnt to this Hill.

WM. E. DEUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

SCHEDULE

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SCHEDULE A.

1 [here insert name, ahode, and occupation, as described in Roll] have removed from the District of , and am now a bond $de resident in the District

of, and I request you to remove my name from your Roll, and grant to me a certificate of registration, according to form B in " The Electoral Act, 1877."

Dated the day of , 18 .

LSignntzcre andpresent address.]

To 1 Esq.,

Returning Officer for the District of

SCHEDULE B.

1, , Returning Officer for the District

of , do hereby certify that was

registered on the Electoral Roll for the District of , on

the	day of	,	and his name still remains on
the said Roll,

Dated this	day of	, 18	.
SCHEDULE C.

1. I do hereby declare I am the person named in the

annexed certificate of	Returning Otficer for the District
of

2. I have removed from the said District of , and am now a

bonri$de resident in the District of

3. I am desirous of being registered on the Electoral Roll for the District of

and to vote at , and request the Returning Officer to register

me as follows :-

Chrktiim and Surname Profession or Date

0. of each Person at Mace of Abode. Remarks.

full lcngth. Occupation. Registration.

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Dated the	day of	, 18	.
Witness	rrSiglzature and address.]

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Adelaide: By authority, W. C. Cox, Government Printer, North-terrace.