Electoral and Referendum Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

 

Statutory Rules 1993 No. 281

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Electoral and Referendum Regulations2 (Amendment)

I,THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984.

Dated 8 February, 1993.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

N. BOLKUS

Minister of State for Administrative Services

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1. Amendment

1.1The Electoral and Referendum Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

 

2. Regulation 39a (Ballot-paper—House of Representatives)

2.1 Add at the end:

“(2) If there are more than 30 candidates for a Division, Form F in Schedule 1 to the Act is altered so that the names of the candidates are set out:

(a) in vertical columns that are as nearly as possible of equal length; and

(b) in the order required by section 212 of the Act so that each column after the first commences with the name of the candidate next succeeding that of the candidate whose name appears last in the immediately preceding column.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 February 1993.

2. Statutory Rules 1940 No. 163 as amended by 1949 No. 62; 1954 No. 27; 1961 No. 103; 1966 No. 140; 1973 No. 62; 1974 No. 44; 1980 No. 241; 1981 Nos. 80 and 84; 1983 Nos. 114, 153, 176, 181, 235, 274 and 313; 1984 No. 287; 1987 Nos. 118 and 119; 1988 Nos. 182 and 339; 1989 No. 32; 1990 Nos. 33 and 334; 1992 No. 422.