Electoral and Referendum Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1973 No. 62

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1973

AND THE REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) ACT 1906-1966.*

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 1918-1973 and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906-1966.

Dated this twentieth day of March, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

F. M. DALY

Minister of State for Services and Property.

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Amendments of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations 

1. After regulation 4 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Modification of forms in joint rolls.

“ 4a. Where, in pursuance of an arrangement made with a State under section 32 of the Act joint rolls are kept in that State, any form provided for by the joint regulations relating to those rolls shall, by force of this regulation, be modified by substituting for any reference to twenty-one years a reference to eighteen years.”.

Form of application for postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper.

2. Regulation 40 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) the word “ and ”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1) the figures “ 21 ” and substituting the figures “ 18 ”;

(c) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1) the word “ and ” (last occurring); and

(d) by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1).

The Schedule —Form 2.

3. Form 2 in the Schedule to the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph 2 the figures “ 21 ” and substituting the figures “ 18 ”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21 March 1973.

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 163, as amended by Statutory Rules 1949, No. 62; 1954, No. 27; 1961, No. 103; and 1966, No. 140.

The Schedule-Form 26a.

4. Form 26a in the Schedule to the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by omitting the figures “ 21 ” (wherever occurring) and substituting the figures “ 18 ”.

The Schedule— Form 26b.

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