Electoral Act Amendment Act 1949 (WA)

1949.] Electoral. [No. 26.

ELECTORAL.

13° Geo. VI., No. CXII.

No. 26 of 1949.

AN ACT to amend the Electoral Act, 1907-1948.

[Assented to 22nd October, 1949.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis-

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Electoral Act Amend- Short title.

meat Act, 1949, and shall be read as one with the Elec- toral Act, 1907-1948 (Act No. 27 of 1907, as reprinted with amendments to and including No. 47 of 1940, incor- porated pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, in Volume 2 of the Reprinted Acts of the Parliament of Western Australia, 1943, and further amended by No. 63 of 1948), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2. The principal Act, as amended by this Act, may Citation of atio

princ ipal Act

be cited as the Electoral Act. 1907-1949.	by this Act.
as amended

Subsection (3) of section seventeen of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word "District" in line five, the words "and if that District is wholly or partly included, pursuant to the provisions of any Act, in another district, however named, that member and the wife of that member may claim to be enrolled for that other district, and if that member is a candidate for election in respect of that other district, while so enrolled may vote at the general election next following the inclusion and while so enrolled and while that member is such a candidate be deemed to live in that other district."

Amendment

of s. 17.

3.

No. 26.] Electoral. [1949.

Amendment

of s. 100. 4. Subsection (1) of section one hundred of the prin- cipal Act is amended by substituting for paragraph (b) the following:—

(b) appoint such other polling place as he thinks necessary for each Province or District, which polling place may be wholly or partly within the boundaries of-

(i)   the Province or District;

(ii)    any Province or District adjoining that

Province or District;.

A mendment	5. Section one hundred and nineteen of the principal
of s. 119.

Act is amended by

(a) substituting for the words in paragraph (a),

line one, of subsection (1), the following:

(a) Do you live in the Electoral District

for which you claim to vote?;

(b) substituting for paragraph (b) of subsection (1)

the following:

(b) Have you within the last preceding six

months bona fide lived within that

District? ;

substituting the word "that" for the word

(c) "this" in line one of paragraph (c) of sub- section (1);

(d) substituting for the words "this Province (or District)?" in lines three and four of para- graph (d) of subsection (2), the following.— ''(Here state Province or District.)";

(e) substituting for the words "this Electoral Dis- trict" in lines one and two of paragraph (j) of subsection (2), the words "the Electoral District for which you now claim to vote".