Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Official Secretary to the Governor-General) Regulations 2018 (Cth)

Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Official Secretary to the Governor‑General) Regulations 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 21 November 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Alex Hawke

Special Minister of State

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Official Secretary to the Governor-General) Regulations 2018.

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.	27 November 2018

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Electoral and Referendum Regulation 2016

1. 1

   Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (at the end of the table)

Add:

26 Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor‑General identifying or locating individuals who: (a) are nominated, or are being considered for nomination, for an honour or award within the Australian Honours and Awards system; or (b) have been selected to provide a reference connected with such a nomination