Electoral Amendment Act 1919 (WA)

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ELECTORAL.

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No. 59 of 1919.

AN ACT to provide for compulsory enrolment of Electors for the Legislative Assembly and to rectify certain errors in the Electoral Act, 1907.

[Assented to 17th December, 1919.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same; as follows :—

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

Act, 1919.

Repeal of see-

tion 38,and sub- 2. Section thirty-eight of the principal Act is hereby re-

Esdeict	tinou of new pealed, and the following section is inserted in lieu thereof,
4o

that is to say

Method of pre-

paration of roll. 38. The Governor may by regulations, either general

Compulsory

or applicable to any particular roll, specify the method

enrolment for

Assembly.

of preparation and prescribe the rules to be observed

in regard thereto.

Any such regulations may provide that any person entitled to enrolment as an elector for the Assembly shall fill in, sign, and send to the officer indicated therein a claim for enrolment in accordance with this Act, and otherwise comply with the relative provisions of this Act :

Provided that any elector who has been enrolled in pur- suance of any claim signed by him and is correctly en- rolled shall not be required to sign and send in any further claim for enrolment in connection with the pre- paration of a new roll unless he has changed his place of living, so as to render a change in his enrolment neces- sary.

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The regulations may prescribe anything necessary or Penalties.

convenient to be prescribed for carrying a system of compulsory enrolment into effect, and may prescribe a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for the contravention of any regulation.

3. The following section is hereby inserted after section Insertion of new

section after

fort -four of the principal Act, that is to say— section44.

44a. (1.) Every person who is entitled to have his rec=tiorr

name placed on the roll for any district or sub-district, AsseinblY* to the Registrar of the district or sub-district, and other- wise comply with the relative provisions of this Act.

and whose name is not on such roll shall (whether his

name is registered on the roll of any other district or

sub-district or not) within twenty-one days after be-

coming so entitled, fill in and sign in accordance with this

Penalty: Two pounds.

Every person who is enrolled on the roll of any district or sub-district, and who changes his place of living from one address in the district or sub-district to another address therein, shall make, sign, and deliver a new claim within twenty-one days after the change, to the Registrar of the district or sub-district.

(2.)

Penalty: Two pounds.

The fact that the name of any elector who has become entitled to have his name enrolled on any roll has not been enrolled thereon within twenty-one days

(3.)

after he became so entitled shall be prima facie evidence

of a contravention on his part of the provisions of sub-

section (1) of this section.

(4.) The registrar of the district concerned shall issue a receipt to the elector for each claim received.

4. Section one hundred and ninety-two of the principal substitution of

new section for

Act is hereby repealed, and the following section is inserted section 192. in lieu thereof :—

192. (1.) For the purpose of preparing any roll or Collection of information for

in this behalf by the Chief Electoral Officer, may require any person to answer any questions or furnish any re- turn or fill in and sign anv

ensuring the enrolment of any elector on a roll, the Chief preparation of

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(2.) Every person to whom any question shall be put under this section shall answer the same truthfully and completely to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief, and shall comply to the best of his ability with any requisition made on him under this section.

Penalty: Two pounds.

Various amend. 5. The principal Act is hereby amended as indicated in	ments.
Schedule. the schedule hereto.
Amendment of 6. Section five of the Electoral Act Amendment Act,

s. 5 °f 1016,

No. 5. 1918, is hereby amended by striking out, in subsection (1) of section one hundred and eighty-eight A, the following words in line one :—"make any untrue," and inserting in lieu

thereof the words "knowingly or wilfully make a false."

Reprinting of

principal Act	7. All copies of the principal Act hereafter printed by
with amend-

ments.	the Government Printer shall be printed as altered by the existing amendments (including this Act) under the super- vision of the Clerk of Parliaments, and all necessary refer- ences to the amending Acts shall be made in the margin.
In any such reprint the short title shall be altered to the Electoral Act, 1907-1919, by which title the principal) Act and the said amendments may be cited together.
Section 5.

SCHEDULE.

Section 86.—Strike out " or candidates."

Section 110.—Strike out "having both an inner and an outer cover" and "to

each," and also "in the inner cover."

Section 116.—Strike out " its inner cover " and substitute " it " in paragraph 1.

Strike out "the outer oover of" in paragraph (3).

Add to paragraph (3) the following words—" The cleft shall also be

closed and sealed unless the ballot-box is provided with an outer

cover without a cleft."

Strike out "inner and outer" in paragraph 5.

Section 129.—Strike out " and mark the word cancelled' on the butt corres-

ponding to such ballot paper."

Section 135.—Strike out " the outer cover of " in the two places in which those

words occur.

Add to subsection (1) "The cleft shall also be closed and sealed unless the ballot box is provided with an outer cover without a cleft."

Section 141.—Strike out " butts of ballot papers " in paragraph 6 (a). Section 143.—In sub-section 2 (d) (ii.) strike out " (unless exhausted)."

In subsection 2 (f) strike out " (unless exhausted) " and the proviso.

Section 146.—In subsection 1 (a) strike out " or candidates."

Section 190.—Strike out "or application for a Postal Ballot-paper."