Electoral Act Amendment Act 1931 (WA)

No. 38.] Electoral. [1931.

ELECTORAL.

22° GEO. V., No. XXXVIII.

No. 38 of 1931.

AN ACT to amend section seventy of the Electoral

Act, 1907.

[Assented to 3rd December, 1931.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows :—

Shot title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Electoral Act Amendment Act, 1931, and shall be read as one with the Electoral Act, 1907, as reprinted in the Appendix to the Sessional Volume of the Statutes for the year 1928.

Amendment of	2. Section seventy of the principal. Act is hereby
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amended by deleting the word "seven" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "fourteen," and by adding to the said sec- tion a proviso, as follows:

Provided that, in the case of an election to fill a vacancy caused by the acceptance by a member of any of the prin- cipal offices of the Government liable to be vacated on political grounds, the date fixed for the polling may be less than fourteen but not less than seven days after the date of nomination.