Electoral and Referendum Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1922. No. 136.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1921, 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 Regulation under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1921, and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906-1919, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this 13th day of September, 1922.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Home and Territories.

 

Amendment of Electoral and Referendum Regulations 1919.

(Statutory Rules 1919, No. 57, as amended by Statutory Rules 1919, Nos. 229, 260, 262, and 276, Statutory Rules 1920, No. 126, and Statutory Rules 1920, No. 261.)

The Electoral and Referendum Regulations 1919 are amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (2) of regulation 16 and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

(2) In the following cases notice of the change shall be given by notice in the Gazette and in some newspaper circulating in the part affected:—

(a) when a Subdivision is abolished and all electors whose names are on the roll for that Subdivision are changed to another Subdivision roll; or

(b) when by reason of the alteration of the boundaries of a Division, any Subdivision is changed from one Division to another Division, and all the names of electors which are on the Subdivision roll for the first-mentioned Division are changed to a Subdivision roll for the last-mentioned Division; or

(c) when in consequence of a proclamation for the preparation of new rolls or action thereunder (other than action by an elector), the enrolment of any electors is changed to a Subdivision or Division which differs in name from the Subdivision or Division for which they were enrolled prior to the proclamation, and in the opinion of the Officer charged with the preparation of the new rolls, a reasonably effective notice, generally applicable to all electors in a Subdivision whose enrolments have been changed can be so given.

 

(3) In any case to which the last preceding sub-regulation does not apply, notice of the change shall be sent by post to each elector concerned, and may be in accordance with Form 10.

and

(b) by omitting from the Schedule, Form 10, and inserting in its stead the following form:—

 

Form 10.

 Regulation 16.

Commonwealth of Australia.

The Commonwealth Electoral Act.

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGE OF ENROLMENT CONSEQUENT UPON ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES OF DIVISIONS OR SUBDIVISIONS.

To—

You are hereby informed that your name has in accordance with the provisions of Section 28 of the Act been removed from the Roll for the Subdivision of the Electoral Division of and has been placed on the Roll for the Subdivision of the Electoral Division of

Electoral Registrar for the Subdivision of

or

Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State of (as the case requires).

Address

Dated the day of 19 .

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.