Electoral and Referendum Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 3131

 

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 Regulations under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906.

Dated 8 December 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

SIGNED

Special Minister of State

 

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 26 January 1984.

Principal Regulations

2. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Electoral and Referendum Regulations.

Facilities for voting as an absent voter

3. Regulation 50 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(3) The Presiding Officer—

(a) shall put to the elector the questions set out in paragraph 115 (1) (a) of the Act;

(b) may, and at the request of any scrutineer shall, also put to the elector all or any of the questions set out in paragraph 115 (1) (b) of the Act;

(c) shall also put to each elector who answered the question set out in sub-paragraph 115(1) (b) (v) of the Act in the negative the question set out in sub-paragraph 115 (1) (ba) (via) of the Act;

 

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(d) shall also put to each elector who answered the question set out in sub-paragraph 115 (1) (ba) (via) of the Act in the affirmative the question set out in sub-paragraph 115 (1) (bb) (vib) of the Act; and

(e) may, and at the request of any scrutineer shall, also put to the elector the question set out in paragraph 115 (1) (c) of the Act.”.

The Schedule

4. (1) The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (c) of the declaration in Form 2 and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c) I am an Australian citizen (or a British subject who on 25 January 1984 was on an electoral roll kept for the purposes of a House of Representatives election);”.

(2) The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (1) (d) in Form 26a and substituting the following paragraph:

“(d) that I am an Australian citizen; and”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 December 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1940 No. 163 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1983 No. 114 and see also Statutory Rules 1983 Nos. 114, 153, 176, 181, 235 and 274.

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