Electoral Districts Act 1971 (Qld)

532 Quvensfaubr ANNO VICESIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 35 of 1971 An Act to Make Provision for the Better Distribution of Electoral Districts [ASSENTED TO 9TH AUGUST, 19711 BE IT ENACTED by the Queen' s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same , as follows PART I-PRELIMINARY 1. Short title . This Act may be cited as the Electoral Districts Act 1971. 2. Parts of Act . This Act is divided into Parts , as follows:- PART I-PRELIMINARY; PART II-REPRESENTATION BY ZONING; PART III-FIRST DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTORAL DISTRICTS; PART IV-SUBSEQUENT REDISTRIBUTIONS OF ELECTORAL DISTRICTS; PART V-GENERAL.

Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 533 3. Present Parliament . (1) Nothing in this Act shall affect the power or authority of the Legislative Assembly as duly constituted before and subsisting at the date of the commencement of this Act (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the present Legislative Assembly), and the present Legislative Assembly shall, unless sooner dissolved by the Governor, continue accordingly for three years from the day appointed for the return of the writs for choosing the same. (2) Every member of the present Legislative Assembly shall continue to sit for the electoral district represented by him immediately prior to the date of the commencement of this Act until he dies, resigns or his seat is otherwise vacated or the present Legislative Assembly expires by effluxion of time or is sooner dissolved. (3) If a member of the present Legislative Assembly dies, resigns or his seat is otherwise vacated, prior to the expiration or sooner dissolution as aforesaid of the present Legislative Assembly, any writ for supplying that vacancy shall issue for the electoral district represented by him as constituted immediately prior to the date of the commencement of this Act, and the by-election shall be held accordingly. (4) The annual roll containing the names of electors for an electoral district as constituted immediately prior to the date of the commencement of this Act registered up to the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year next preceding the date of the commencement of this Act together with a supplemental roll of the names of all electors who, if that electoral district had continued to be so constituted, would have been entitled under The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 to be added, since that annual roll was printed, to the roll of electors for that electoral district as so constituted shall, with and subject to all corrections and erasures of or from that annual roll and supplemental roll made pursuant to The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 be the roll of electors for the purposes of any by-election for that electoral district held in accordance with the provisions of this section. (5) The making of and from any annual roll or supplemental roll to which subsection (4) of this section refers of any and every correction or erasure which could lawfully have been made thereof or therefrom pursuant to The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 if this Act had not been passed, is hereby authorized. (6) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section The Electoral Districts Act of 1958 is hereby repealed. 4. Number of members of Legislative Assembly. (1) From and after the expiration by effluxion of time or the sooner dissolution of the present Legislative Assembly, the Legislative Assembly shall consist of eighty-two members. (2) The State of Queensland shall, subject to this Act, be distributed from time to time into eighty-two electoral districts. (3) One member shall be returned to the Legislative Assembly for each such electoral district.

-534 Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 PART II-REPRESENTATION BY ZONING 5. Zones . (1) The State of Queensland shall be and is hereby divided into four Zones of representation as follows, that is to say: Zone 1, which shall be called the " South-Eastern Zone," and which shall comprise that portion of the State. of Queensland more particularly described in Part I of the Schedule to this Act; Zone 2, which shall be called the " Provincial Cities Zone," and which shall comprise those portions of the State of Queensland more particularly described in Part II of the Schedule to this Act; Zone 3, which shall be called the " Western and Far Northern Zone," and which shall comprise that portion of the State of Queensland more particularly described in Part III of the Schedule to this Act; Zone 4, which shall be called the " Country Zone," and which shall comprise those portions of the State of Queensland more particularly described in Part IV of the Schedule to this Act. (2) A reference in the Schedule to this Act to- (a) the Area of a City, Town or Shire; or (b) the Area constituted by a Division, or Divisions, of the Area of a Shire, is a reference to such Area or Area as constituted under the Local Government Act 1936-1971 at the date of the commencement of this Act. (3) An island that is part of the State of Queensland and that is not comprised in a Zone prescribed by this Act pursuant to any provision of this Act other than this subsection shall be comprised in such Zone as is nearest to it and, where that Zone is the Provincial Cities Zone, shall be comprised in such Area of that Zone as is nearest to it. 6. Number of electoral districts in respective Zones. (1) Zone I (the South-Eastern Zone) shall be divided into forty-seven electoral districts. (2) Zone 2 (the Provincial Cities Zone) shall be divided into thirteen electoral districts. (3) Zone 3 (the Western and Far`Northern Zone) shall be divided into seven electoral districts. (4) Zone 4 (the Country Zone) shall be divided into fifteen electoral districts. 7. Distribution of Zones into electoral districts . (1) Each and every Zone prescribed by this Act shall be respectively completely distributed into the number of electoral districts prescribed therefor by this Act before the expiration by the effluxion of time or the sooner dissolution of the present Legislative Assembly. (2) Thereafter, subject to this Act, all or any of such Zones may respectively be completely or partially redistributed from time to time but any such complete or partial redistribution shall in respect of a particular Zone be so made that such Zone shall at all times be and remain divided into the number of electoral districts prescribed therefor by this Act.

Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 535 PART III-FIRST DISTRIBUTION of ELECTORAL DISTRIcrs 8. Appointment of Commissioners . (1) For the purposes of the complete distribution, before the expiration or dissolution as aforesaid of the present Legislative Assembly, of the four Zones prescribed by this Act into the numbers of electoral districts respectively prescribed therefor by this Act, three Electoral Commissioners shall be appointed by the Governor in Council by commission under his hand and seal. One of the Commissioners shall be appointed chairman of the Commissioners. (2) Each Commissioner shall receive such payment by way of salary or allowances, or both, as the Governor in Council thinks fit. (3) If, before such complete distribution is finally made as herein provided, any Commissioner dies, or for any cause becomes incapable of acting, another Commissioner shall in like manner be appointed in his stead. 9. Duty of Commissioners . It shall be the duty of such Commissioners to completely distribute each and every Zone prescribed by this Act into the number of electoral districts prescribed therefor by this Act. 10. Basis of distribution in Zones ( other than the Provincial Cities Zone ). (1) Provision for the number of electoral districts prescribed by this Act for the South-Eastern Zone, the Western and Far Northern Zone and the Country Zone prescribed by this Act respectively shall be made by the Commissioners on the basis approximately of a quota of electors as provided by this section. (2) The quota of electors in respect of each Zone to which this section relates--shall be the resultant quotient (disregarding any fraction less than one) obtained by dividing the total number of electors ascertained under subsection (3) of this section to have been living in that Zone on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year next preceding the date of the appointment of the Commissioners under and for the purposes of this Part by the number of electoral districts prescribed by this Act for that Zone. (3) The number of electors living in a Zone to which this section relates on the thirty-first day of December mentioned and referred to in subsection (2) of this section shall be the aggregate number of electors who, on that date, were, pursuant to The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 enrolled for all of the electoral districts and parts, if any, of electoral districts as constituted immediately prior to the commencement of this Act which are within the boundaries of that Zone. (4) A certificate under the hand of the Principal Electoral Officer published in the Gazette and certifying the numbers of electors respectively living in the Zones to which this section relates on the thirty-first day of December mentioned and referred to in subsection (2) of this section (or in either such Zone), shall be conclusive proof of the numbers of electors respectively living in such Zones or, according as stated in the certificate, in the Zone in question on the said date, and the Commissioners shall use any such certificate accordingly. (5) The Commissioners may adopt a margin of allowance to be used whenever necessary, but, subject to subsection (6) of this section, the quota shall not, in respect of any electoral district, be departed from to a greater extent than one-fifth more or one-fifth less.

536 Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 (6) In the case of electoral districts in the Western and Far Northern Zone where, having regard to distance from the seat of government, means of communication, density of population, size of those districts or any of them, and the need to absorb the number of electors within that Zone in electoral districts in that Zone, the Commissioners are of opinion that special circumstances apply whereby special treatment should be accorded to any one or more of those electoral districts the quota may be departed from (be it more or less) to a greater extent than one-fifth. 11. Basis of distribution in the Provincial Cities Zone. (1) Provision for the number of electoral districts prescribed by this Act for the Provincial Cities Zone prescribed by this Act shall be made by the Commissioners by- (a) dividing into three electoral districts each of the following areas:- (i) the Bundaberg Area; (ii) the Central Queensland Area; (iii) the Townsville Area; (b) dividing into two electoral districts the Cairns Area; (c) constituting as one electoral district each of the following Areas:- (i) the Mackay Area; (ii) the Mount Isa Area. (2} The quota of electors in respect of each Area comprised in the Provincial Cities Zone prescribed by this section to be divided into three electoral districts shall be the resultant quotient (disregarding any fraction less than one) obtained by dividing the total number of electors ascertained under subsection (4) of this section to have been living in the Area on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year next preceding the date of the appointment of the Commissioners under and for the purposes of this Part, by three. (3) The quota of electors in respect of the Area comprised in the Provincial Cities Zone prescribed by this section to be divided into two electoral districts shall be the resultant quotient (disregarding any fraction less than one) obtained by dividing the total number of electors ascertained under subsection (4) of this section to have been living in the Area on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year next preceding the date of the appointment of the Commissioners under and for the purposes of this Part, by two. (4) The number of electors living in an Area referred to in subsection (2) or (3) of this section on the thirty-first day of December mentioned and referred to in the subsection in question shall be the aggregate number of electors who, on that date, were pursuant to The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 enrolled for all of the electoral districts and parts, if any, of electoral districts as constituted immediately prior to the commencement of this Act which are within that Area. (5) A certificate under the hand of the Principal Electoral Officer published in the Gazette and certifying the numbers of electors respectively living in the Areas referred to in subsection (2) or (3) of this section on the thirty-first day of December mentioned and referred to in the subsection in question (or in any of those Areas) shall be conclusive proof of the numbers of electors respectively living in such Areas or, according as stated in the certificate, in any such Area or Areas on the said date and the Commissioners shall use any such certificate accordingly.

Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 537 (6) The Commissioners may adopt a margin of allowance to be used in dividing an Area comprised in the Provincial Cities Zone into two or, as the case may be, three electoral districts, but the quota shall not, in respect of the electoral districts into which such an Area is divided, be departed from to a greater extent than one-fifth more or one-fifth less. 12. Matters to be considered in distributing Zones. (1) Subject to sections 9, 10 and 11 of this Act, in distributing a Zone prescribed by this Act, into the number of electoral districts prescribed therefor by this Act, consideration shall be given by the Commissioners to- (a) community or diversity of interest; (b) means of communication; (c) physical features; (d) the boundaries of Areas of Local Authorities and Divisions of Local Authorities; (e) distance from the seat of government; (f) density of population; (g) demographic trends, but in so distributing such a Zone into electoral districts the boundaries of the electoral districts shall, in so far as in the opinion of the Commissioners circumstances permit, conform with boundaries of Areas of Local Authorities and boundaries of Divisions of Areas of Local Authorities. (2) Suggestions in writing with respect to the distribution of a Zone prescribed by this Act into the number of electoral districts prescribed therefor by this Act may be lodged, with the Commissioners not later than one calendar month after the date of the appointment of the Commissioners'' under and for the purposes of this Part, and the Commissioners may consider suggestions so lodged. PART IV-SUBSEQUENT REDISTRIBUTIONS OF ELECTORAL DISTRICTS 13. When subsequent redistributions may be made . If at any time- (a) the number of electors for any electoral district or the numbers of electors respectively enrolled for any two or more electoral districts as constituted for the time being (and whether, in the case of two or more electoral districts, situated within the same Zone as prescribed by this Act or within different such Zones) is or are so much above or so much below the applicable quota or the respective applicable quotas as ascertained under sections 10 and 11 of this Act (after taking into consideration the applicable margin of allowance or the respective applicable margins of allowance provided for in the said sections 10 and 11 and in relation to any electoral district to which subsection (6) of section 10 of this Act has been applied by the Commissioners in any distribution or redistribution, after making due allowance for the matters specified in that subsection; or

538 Electoral- Districts Act 1971, No. 35 (b) the total number of electors within the State or within any locality or localities thereof, has increased or decreased to such extent, that, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, it has become necessary to make- (c) a complete redistribution-that is to say, a redistribution of all of the electoral districts for the State; or (d) a partial redistribution-that is to say, a redistribution of those electoral districts which are affected by the matters, or any of the matters, set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection, the Governor in Council may, according as he deems necessary in the circumstances, cause all or any of the Zones prescribed by this Act to be respectively completely or partially redistributed. 14. Appointment of Commissioners . For the purpose of making any complete or partial redistribution under this Part of this Act, the Governor in Council shall appoint three Electoral Commissioners under and pursuant to section 8 of this Act, and for that purpose the provisions of the said section shall apply and extend. 15. Duty of Commissioners . It shall be the duty of the Commissioners appointed pursuant to section 14 of this Act to make, according as is specified by the commission appointing them, a complete or partial redistribution in manner provided by this Act but they shall so make such complete or partial redistribution in respect of a Zone prescribed by this Act that such Zone shall at all times be and remain divided into the number of electoral districts prescribed therefor by this Act and, in the case of'the Provincial Cities Zone prescribed by this Act, that each of the Areas comprised therein shall, according as prescribed by this Act, at all times be divided into three or, as the case may be, two electoral districts or constituted as one electoral district. 16. Fresh quotas . (1) Where the South-Eastern Zone, the Western and Far Northern Zone or the Country Zone prescribed by this Act is affected by the redistribution to be made by the Commissioners appointed under this Part of this Act, they shall ascertain a quota of electors in respect of the Zone and- (a) for that purpose the number of electors living in the Zone so affected shall be and be deemed to be the aggregate number of electors who, on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year next preceding the date of the appointment of the Commissioners, were, pursuant to The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 enrolled for all of the existing electoral districts within the boundaries of that Zone; and (b) subject to all such adaptations thereof as are necessary to give effect to the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subsection, section 10 of this Act shall apply and be observed accordingly by the Commissioners, the Principal Electoral Officer and all other persons concerned. (2) In relation to the Provincial Cities Zone prescribed by this Act, the Commissioners appointed under this Part of this Act shall ascertain a quota of electors in respect of each Area comprised in that

Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 539 Zone prescribed by this Act to be divided into two or, as the case may be, three electoral districts which is affected by the redistribution to be made by them and- (a) for that purpose the number of electors living in an Area so affected shall be and be deemed to be the aggregate number of electors, who, on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year next preceding the date of the appointment of the Commissioners, were, pursuant to The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965, enrolled for the two or, as the case may be, three existing electoral districts within that Area; and (b) subject to all such adaptations thereof as are necessary to give effect to the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subsection, section 11 of this Act shall apply and be observed accordingly by the Commissioners, the Principal Electoral Officer, and all other persons concerned. (3) Subject to observing all other requirements of this Act, in making a complete or partial redistribution under this Part of this Act, consideration shall be given by the Commissioners to the matters specified in subsection (1) of section 12 of this Act. (4) Suggestions in writing with respect to a complete or partial redistribution under this Part of this Act may be lodged with the Commissioners not later than one calendar month after the date of the appointment of the Commissioners for the purpose of making the redistribution in question, and the Commissioners may consider suggestions so lodged. 17. Existing Parliament . (1) Nothing in this Part of this Act shall affect the power or authority of the Legislative Assembly as duly constituted before and subsisting at the date of the appointment of Commissioners to make a complete or partial redistribution under this Part, and that Legislative Assembly shall, unless sooner dissolved by the Governor, continue accordingly for three years from the day appointed for the return of the writs for choosing the same. (2) Every member of that Legislative Assembly shall continue to sit for the electoral district represented by him immediately prior to the appointment of the Commissioners until he dies, resigns or his seat is otherwise vacated or that Legislative Assembly expires by efuxion of time or is sooner dissolved. (3) If a member of that Legislative Assembly dies, resigns or his seat is otherwise vacated, prior to the expiration or sooner dissolution as aforesaid of that Legislative Assembly, any writ for supplying that vacancy shall issue for the electoral district represented by him a§ constituted immediately prior to the appointment of the Commissioners, and the by-election shall be held accordingly. (4) The annual roll containing the names of electors for an electoral district as constituted immediately prior to the appointment of the Commissioners registered up to the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year next preceding the date of such appointment, together with a supplemental roll of the names of all electors who, if that electoral district had continued to be so constituted, would have been entitled under The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 to be added, since that annual -roll was printed, to the roll of electors for that electoral district as so constituted shall, with and subject to all corrections and erasures of or from that annual roll and supplemental roll made pursuant to The

540 Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 be the roll of electors for the purposes of any by-election for that electoral district held in accordance with the provisions of this section. (5) The making of and from any annual roll or supplemental roll to which subsection (4) of this section refers of any and every correction or erasure which could lawfully have been made thereof or therefrom pursuant to The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 if Commissioners had not been appointed as aforesaid, is hereby authorized. PART V-GENERAL 18. Names of electoral districts . The Commissioners shall designate by name any and every electoral district proposed by them and for that purpose may adopt or refuse to adopt the name of any existing electoral district but- (a) any electoral district prescribed by this Act to be constituted by an Area comprised in the Provincial Cities Zone prescribed by this Act shall be designated by the name of the city comprised in the Area; (b) in the case of an Area comprised in the Provincial Cities Zone prescribed by this Act that is required by this Act to be divided into two or three electoral districts, unless the Commissioners deem it inappropriate so to do, each electoral district into which the Area is divided shall be designated by a name that includes the name of the city or town the Area whereof is comprised, wholly or partially in that electoral district and, should the case require it, by an additional word or words identifying the particular electoral district. 19. Notice of proposed distribution or redistribution . (1) The Commissioners shall cause to be prepared a map or maps showing the names and boundaries of each and every electoral district proposed by them. (2) One and the same map may be so prepared in respect of all proposed electoral districts, or a group of two or more proposed electoral districts, or a particular proposed electoral district. (3) The boundaries of any and every Zone prescribed by this Act shall, to the extent, if any, to which they are conterminous with the boundaries of any proposed electoral district, be delineated on the map showing that district. (4) The Commissioners shall (not later than a date to be fixed by the Governor in Council by Proclamation published in the Gazette) cause to be publicly exhibited, in some conspicuous place at the court house at every place appointed under The Justices Acts 1886 to 1968 for holding magistrates courts and at every police station within a proposed electoral district, a copy of the map showing that proposed electoral district. (5) The Commissioners shall also cause to be prepared a statement showing- (a) the quota or, as the case may be, he respective quotas ascertained by them in respect of the Zone or Zones prescribed by this Act (or, in the case of the Provincial Cities Zone prescribed by this Act, any Area comprised in that Zone) affected by the distribution to be made by them;

Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 541 (b) the names of each and every electoral district proposed by them showing every such name in relation to the Zone for which the electoral district is proposed; (c) the approximate number of electors in each and every proposed electoral district; and (d) the description of the boundaries of each and every proposed electoral district. (6) The Commissioners shall (not later than the date fixed by the Governor in Council under subsection (4) of this section) cause to be deposited at the court house at every place appointed under The Justices Acts 1886 to 1968 for holding magistrates courts and at every police station within a proposed electoral district a copy of such statement. (7) Where there is no place appointed under The Justices Acts 1886 to 1968 for holding magistrates courts and no police station within a proposed electoral district the Commissioners shall cause a copy of the map and a copy of the statement to be publicly exhibited or, as the case requires, deposited within the time specified in that behalf at the place so appointed or the police station that in the opinion of the Commissioners is nearest to the proposed electoral district. (8) The map and statement shall thereupon, and for a period of one month thereafter, be available for inspection by any elector at all times during which the court house or police station is open for the transaction of public business. 20. Objections . Objections or suggestions in writing with respect to any proposed electoral district (whether proposed for the purposes of making a complete distribution under Part III of this Act or a complete or partial redistribution under Part IV of this Act) may be lodged with the Commissioners not later than one calendar month after the date fixed by the Governor in Council under subsection (4) of section 19 of this Act, and the Commissioners shall consider all objections and suggestions so- lodged before finally making such distribution or, as the case may be, redistribution. 21. Report by Commission . The Commissioners shall (not later than a date to be fixed by the Governor in Council by Proclamation published in the Gazette) make and forward to the Premier a report upon the distribution or, as the case may be, the complete or partial redistribution made by them, setting out- (a) the quota or, as the case may be, the respective quotas ascertained by them irr respect of the Zone or Zones (or, in the case of the Provincial Cities Zone prescribed by this Act, any Area comprised in that Zone) affected by such distribution or, as the case may be, complete or partial redistribution; (b) the names of each and every electoral district as determined by them showing every such name in relation to the Zone for which it has been so determined; (c) the approximate number of electors in each and every such electoral district; (d) the description of the boundaries of each and every such electoral district. 22. Proclamation of electoral districts . (1) The names and boundaries of the electoral districts as determined by the Commissioners in their report to the Premier shall forthwith be proclaimed by the Governor in Council by Proclamation published in the Gazette.

542 Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 (2) The electoral districts as determined by the Commissioners pursuant to the complete distribution made under Part III of this Act and as so proclaimed shall be the electoral districts of the State of Queensland from and after the expiration by the effluxion of time or the sooner dissolution of the present Legislative Assembly, subject, however, to any later complete or partial redistribution made under Part IV of this Act, and shall each return one member to the Legislative Assembly but if, before the Commissioners are appointed under Part III of this Act for the purposes of a complete distribution or, the Commissioners having been so appointed, before the Commissioners have made and forwarded a report upon the distribution pursuant to section 21 of this Act, the present Legislative Assembly expires by the efliuxion of time or is sooner dissolved then notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act writs for the election of members to serve in the Legislative Assembly shall issue for the electoral districts as constituted immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act and elections of members to serve in the Legislative Assembly shall be held accordingly and the roll of electors for the purposes of the election for each such electoral district held in accordance with the provisions of this subsection shall be the roll for the electoral district compiled in accordance with the provisions of subsections (4) and (5) of section 3 of this Act in all respects as though the election for each such electoral district were a by-election to which that section applies. Upon the election of a Legislative Assembly at a g1.epnreersaelnetleLcetgioisnlautnivdeerAthsissemsubblsyec"tisohnalalnbyerreefaedreanscea irneftherisenAccet ttoo tthhee Legislative Assembly so elected. (3) The electoral districts as determined by the Commissioners pursuant to any complete or partial redistribution made under Part IV of this Act and as so proclaimed shall, subject to subsection (4) of this section, be the electoral districts of Queensland from and after the expiration by the effluxion of time or the sooner dissolution of the Legislative Assembly existing when such complete or partial redistribution shall have been made or, if a Legislative Assembly is not then constituted, from and after the expiration by effluxion of time or the sooner dissolution of the Legislative Assembly first duly constituted after such complete or partial redistribution shall have been made, subject, however, to any later complete or partial redistribution made under the said Part IV, and shall each return one member to the Legislative Assembly. (4) In the case of a partial redistribution under the said Part IV, the existing electoral districts not affected thereby and the new electoral districts determined thereby shall together be the electoral districts of Queensland from and after the expiration by the effluxion of time or the sooner dissolution of the Legislative Assembly existing when such partial redistribution shall have been made, subject, however, to any later complete or partial redistribution made under the said Part IV, and shall each return one member to the Legislative Assembly. (5) Any division by the Commissioners of the State or, in the case of a partial redistribution, any part of the State into electoral districts made or purporting to have been made pursuant to Part III or Part IV of this Act shall, on the Proclamation by the Governor in Council in the Gazette of the names and boundaries of the said electoral districts, be final and conclusive, and shall not be impeachable for any informality or want of form, or be appealed against, reviewed, quashed, or in any way called in question in any court whatsoever.

Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 543 23. Electoral rolls. (1) The Principal Electoral Officer shall compile an electoral roll of the electors in each and every electoral district determined by Commissioners under Part III or Part IV of this Act and proclaimed by the Governor in Council and for that purpose there shall be, for each and every such electoral district, annual rolls and supplemental rolls to the annual rolls which shall be prepared under and in accordance with the requirements of The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 which shall apply and extend accordingly. (2) The first such annual roll for an electoral district determined by Commissioners under Part III of this Act and proclaimed by the Governor in Council shall contain the names of electors registered as living in that electoral district on the thirty-first day of December next following the date of the appointment of those Commissioners. (3) The first such annual roll for an electoral district determined by Commissioners under Part IV of this Act and proclaimed by the Governor in Council shall contain the names of electors registered as living in that district on the thirty-first day of December next following the date of the appointment of those Commissioners. (4) The preparation of any annual roll referred to in this section may be commenced by the Principal Electoral Officer as soon as conveniently may be after the proclamation by the Governor in Council of the electoral district for which that annual roll is to be compiled. (5) The Principal Electoral Officer is hereby empowered to issue such orders and give such directions as he may consider necessary or expedient for the purpose of the compilation in pursuance of this section of electoral rolls. Any such orders and directions shall have the force of law and shall be obeyed. (6) The annual roll prepared in pursuance of this section for any electoral district, with any supplemental rolls for that district, shall be the existing roll of electors for that district within the meaning and for the purposes of The Elections Acts 1915 to 1965 until a new roll of electors for that electoral district has . been prepared under and pursuant to those Acts. THE SCHEDULE [s. 5] PART I South-Eastern Zone All that portion of the State of Queensland comprising- (a) the Areas of the Cities Qf Brisbane (as .constituted and declared by the City of Brisbane Act1924-1969 at the date of the commencement of this Act), Gold Coast, Ipswich, Redcliffe, and Toowoomba; (b) the Areas of the Shires of Redland, Albert, Beaudesert, Boonah, Moreton, Laidley, Gatton, Crow's Nest, Esk, Nanango, Kilcoy, Noosa, Maroochy, Landsborough, Caboolture, and Pine Rivers; and (c) the areas constituted by- (i) the part of Division 4 of the Area of the Shire of Rosalie that, at the date of the commencement of this Act, is comprised in the electoral district of Somerset; (ii) Division 4 of the Area of the Shire of Widgee; and (iii) Moreton Island and the islands within the limits of Moreton Bay.

544 Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 PART II Provincial Cities Zone All those portions of the State of Queensland comprising- (a) the Area ( in this Act referred to as the " Bundaberg Area ") constituted by- (i) the Areas of the Cities of Bundaberg and Maryborough; (ii) the Areas of the Shires of Burrum and Isis; and (iii) Division 3 of the Area of the Shire of Woongarra; (b) the Area ( in this Act referred to as the " Cairns Area") constituted by- (i) the Area of the City of Cairns; (ii) the Area of the Shire of Douglas; (iii) Divisions 3 and 4 of the Area of the Shire of Mareeba; and (iv) Divisions 1 and 4 of the Area of the Shire of Mulgrave; (c) the Area ( in this Act referred to as the " Central Queensland Area ") constituted by- (i) the Area of the City of Rockhampton; (ii) the Area of the Town of Gladstone; (iii) the Areas of the Shires of Calliope and Mount Morgan; and (iv) Division 1 of the Area of the Shire of Fitzroy; (d) the Area ( in this Act referred to as t he " Mackay Area ") constituted by- (i) the Area of the City of Mackay; and (ii) the part of Division 1 of the Area of the Shire of Pioneer that is comprised in the area bounded by a line commencing on the Pioneer River at Willetts Road, thence proceeding along Willetts Road to the Bruce Highway, thence along the Bruce Highway to the intersection of that Highway and Norris Road, thence along Norris Road to the Mackay Habana Road, thence along the Mackay Habana Road to McCready's Creek , thence along McCready's Creek to the coastline , thence along the coastline to the mouth of the Pioneer River and thence along the Pioneer River to the point of commencement; (e) the Area ( in this Act referred to as the " Mount Isa Area ") constituted by the Areas of the Shires of Burke, Mount Isa, and Cloncurry; (f) the Area (in this Act referred to as the " Townsville Area ") constituted by- (i) the Area of the City of Townsville; and ( ii) the Area of the Shire of Thuringowa. PART III Western and Far Northern Zone All that portion of the State of Queensland comprising- (a) the Area of the City of Charters Towers; (b) the Area of the Town of Roma; (c) Divisions 1 and 2 of the Area of the Shire of Waggamba and the part of Division 3 of the Area of that Shire that, at the date of the commencement of this Act, is comprised in the electoral district of Balonne;

Electoral Districts Act 1971, No. 35 545 (d) the Areas of the Shires of Tara, Warroo, Balonne, Paroo, Bulloo, Murilla, Bendemere, Bungil, Booringa, Murweh, Tambo, Blackall, Quilpie, Isisford, Barcoo, Diamantina, Duaringa, Bauhinia. Emerald, Peak Downs, Belyando, Jericho, Aramac, Barcaldine, Ilfracombe, Longreach, Winton, and Boulia; (e) Divisions 3 and 4 of the Area of the Shire of Bowen and the part of Division 2 of that Shire that lies inland from the crest of Clarke Range or that lies generally south of a line drawn from Mount Herbert in that range due west to a point on the boundary between that Shire and the Shire of Ayr; (f) the parts of Divisions I and 2 of the Area of the Shire of Dalrymple that, at the date of the commencement of this Act, are comprised in the electoral district of Flinders; (g) the Areas of the Shires of Flinders. Richmond, McKinlay. Etheridge, Croydon, Carpentaria, and Cook: (h) Divisions I and 2 of the Area of the Shire of Mareeba. PART IV Countrj, Zone All that portion of the State of Queensland that is not comprised in the South-Eastern Zone, the Provincial Cities Zone, or the Western and Far Northern Zone prescribed by this Act. 18