Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated) Regulations 2021 (Cth)

Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated) Regulations 2021

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 16 December 2021

David Hurley

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

Ben Morton

Special Minister of State

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated) Regulations 2021.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	23 December 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Electoral and Referendum Regulation 2016

1

After section 10

Insert:

10APermitted purpose for use of information—Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated

1. (1)

   For the purposes of paragraph 91A(2A)(c) of the Act, the purpose of inviting persons to participate in the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes is prescribed for the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated.

2. (2)

   This section is repealed at the start of the day after the end of the period of 12 months starting on the day this section commences.