Electoral Amendment Act (No. 2) 1982 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ELECTORAL (No. 2).

No. 123 of 1982.

AN ACT to amend section 156 of the Electoral Act

1907-1982.

[Assented to 10 December 1982.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent

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

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Electoral atir:1=n .

Amendment Act (No. 2) 1982.

(2) In this Act the Electoral Act 19074982 is approve ass December

referred to as the principal Act.	1981 and
amended by
Act No. 3/

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act C)f 1982.

may be cited as the Electoral Act 1907-1982.

No. 123.] Electoral (No. 2). [1982.

Section 156

amended. 2. Section 156 of the principal Act is amended in paragraph (a) of subsection (16) by inserting after "failure" the following-

" (in this section the words "valid and sufficient reason" shall include an honest belief on the part of an elector that abstention from voting is part of his religious duty) " .