Electoral Amendment Act (No. 2) 1985 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALLA.

ELECTORAL (No. 2).

No. 104 of 1985.

AN ACT to amend the Electoral Act 1907.

Assented to 7 December 1985.1

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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 rtrtiggpai Act.

Amendment Act (No. 2) 1985.

Reprinted as

approved December

1981 and

amended by

(2) In this Act the Electoral Act 1907 is referred Was11:37sOf31

1982• 9. 54

to as the principal Act.

and 88 of

1983

and 28, 78

and 78 of 1984

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Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a day

to be fixed by proclamation.

Section 4

amended. 3. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended-

(a)	by repealing the definition of "proclaimed day"; and
(b)	by inserting after the definition of "referendum" the following definition

it

"relevant citizenship law" means the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 of the Commonwealth, as amended and in force immediately before the day fixed by proclamation for the purposes of section 2 (2) of the Australian Citizenship Amend- ment Act 1984, of the Common- wealth, and the regulations in force immediately before that day under the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 of the Commonwealth, as so amended and in force; ".

Section 11

amended. 4. Section 17 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1), by deleting subparagraph (a) (ii) and substituting the following subparagraph

(ii) a person (other than an Australian citizen) who would, if the relevant citizenship law had continued in force, be a British subject within the meaning of that relevant citizenship law and who was at some time within 3 months, immediately preceding 26 January 1984, an elector of the Assembly or an elector, under a Commonwealth Act, of the Com- monwealth Parliament; ".

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5. Section 119 of the Principal Act is amended in Oectn lOcail.19

subsection (2) by deleting paragraph (h) and sub-

stituting the following paragraph

I 4' (h) are you an Australian citizen? (and if

the answer to that question is No, the further question, Are you a person (other than an Australian citizen) who would, if the relevant citizenship law had continued in force, be a British subject within the meaning of that relevant citizenship law who was at some time within 3 months immediately preceding 26 January 1984 a person whose name was on any electoral roll kept for the purposes of an election for the Assembly or for the Commonwealth Parlia- ment)? ".