Electoral and Referendum Regulations 1919 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1920. No. 261.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1919, AND THE REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) ACT 1906-1919.

I, 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 1918-1919, and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906-1919, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fifteenth day of December, 1920.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

for Minister of State for Home and Territories.

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Amendment of Electoral and Referendum Regulations 1919.

(Statutory Rules 1919, No. 57, as amended by Statutory Rules 1919, Nos. 239, 260, 262, and 276, and by Statutory Rules 1920, No. 126.)

After regulation 45b of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Right of elector to vote as ordinary elector in certain cases.

“45c. (1) Where an elector, whose name, on the certified list of voters, is marked in such a manner as to indicate that a postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper have been issued to him, claims to vote at any polling place, the Presiding Officer at that polling place shall permit him to vote as an ordinary voter if that person—

(a) answers such questions as are put to him under the provisions of Section 115 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1919 so as to show that he is entitled to vote; and

(b) signs before the Presiding Officer a declaration in the following form:—

Commonwealth of Australia.

Division of....................................

I,  of

hereby declare that I have not applied for a postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper nor has a

postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper been received by me in connexion with the election being held this day.

Signature of Voter........................

Signed before me at the....................

polling place—

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Presiding Officer.

Date , 1920.

(2) The declaration made by a voter in accordance with this regulation shall be enclosed in an envelope by the Presiding Officer and shall be forwarded by him to the Assistant Returning Officer.”

 

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