Electoral and Referendum Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 321

Electoral and Referendum Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

Dated 13 March 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

STEWART WEST

Minister of State for Administrative Services

After regulation 39 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Ballot-paper—House of Representatives

“39a. Form F in the Schedule to the Act is altered:

(a) by omitting:

“Ballot-paper

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

[State/Territory] of [here insert name of State or Territory].” and substituting:

“BALLOT PAPER

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

[here insert name of State or Territory as appropriate]”;

(S.R. 9/89)-Cat. No.  15/24.1.1989

(b) by omitting:

“Election of one Member of the House of Representatives.

Directions.—Mark your vote on this ballot-paper by placing the numbers [here insert “1 and 2” where there are two candidates,“1, 2 and 3” where there are three candidates, “1, 2, 3 and 4” where there are four candidates, and so on as the case requires]in the squares respectively opposite the names of the candidates so as to indicate the order of your preference for them.”;

and substituting:

“Number the boxes from 1 to (here insert number of candidates)in the order of your choice”; and

(c) by omitting:

“CANDIDATES

□ CRANE, JASON.1

[1Here insert, if appropriate, the name of a registered political party, or the word “Independent”]”;

□ WILSON, BENJAMIN.1

□ BROOKMAN, DANIEL.1

□ FRENCH, SARAH.1

□ LOPEZ, KATH.1

and substituting:

“□ 1

2

[1 Here insert name of a candidate

2 Here insert name of a registered political party, composite name of registered political parties or “Independent” if to be printed.]

□ 1

2

□ 1

2

□ 1

2

Remember .... number every box to make your vote count.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 13 March 1989.

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.

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