Electoral and Referendum Regulations 1919 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1926. No. 113

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1925 AND THE REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) ACT 1906-1926.

I, THE DEPUTY OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1925 and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906-1926, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated the twenty-third day of August, 1926.

SOMERS,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

S. M. BRUCE,

for Minister of State for Home and Territories.

Amendment of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1919, No. 57, as amended to this date.)

The Electoral and Referendum Regulations are amended by inserting, in Division 2 of Part III. thereof, after regulation 45, the following regulations:—

Powers of assistant returning officer in Northern Territory.

“45a. The Assistant Returning Officer in the Northern Territory shall, subject to the control of the Divisional Officer for each Division in respect of which he is appointed, have all the powers of that Divisional Returning Officer in relation to voting by post.”

Forms for use in the Northern Territory.

“45b.—(1.) Subject to this regulation, the application by a person in the Northern Territory for a postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper may be in accordance with Form 22, the postal vote certificate may be in accordance with Form 23, and the forms of ballot-paper may be in accordance with Forms 24, 25, 25a and 25b.

“(2.) In relation to voting by post in the Northern Territory, Form 22 shall be amended—

(a) by adding at the end of the first paragraph of the heading thereto the words ‘or, where the application is made by an elector who is in the Northern Territory, to the Assistant Returning Officer at Darwin in that Territory.’;

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(b) by inserting in the second paragraph of the heading thereto, after the words ‘Divisional Returning Officer to whom it is addressed’ the words ‘or where the application is made by an elector who is in the Northern Territory, the Assistant Returning Officer in that Territory’;

(c) by adding at the end of the third paragraph of the heading thereto the words ‘or, where the elector votes by post in the Northern Territory, by the Assistant Returning Officer at Darwin in that Territory’;

(d) by omitting the words ‘Initials of the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of’ and inserting in their stead the words ‘Initials of the Assistant Returning Officer in the Northern Territory, Darwin’;

(e) by omitting the marginal note ‘(1) here insert name of Division to which application is being sent’; and

(f) by omitting the words ‘To the Divisional Returning Officer for the Electoral Division of (1.)’ and inserting in their stead the words ‘To the Assistant Returning Officer in the Northern Territory, Darwin’;

Form 23 shall be amended—

(i) by omitting therefrom the words ‘Divisional Returning Officer for the Electoral Division of’ and inserting in their stead the words ‘Assistant Returning Officer in the Northern Territory, Darwin’; and

(ii) by omitting from note (1) the words ‘the Divisional’ and inserting in their stead the words ‘the Assistant’;

(iii) by omitting from note (2) the words ‘a Divisional’ and inserting in their stead the words ‘the Assistant’;

and Forms 24, 25, 25a and 25b shall be amended by omitting from the back of each form the words ‘Divisional’ (wherever occurring) and inserting in its stead the word ‘Assistant’.”

“(3.) In this regulation the words ‘Assistant Returning Officer’ shall mean the Assistant Returning Officer appointed under the provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act.”

 

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