Electoral Regulations 1996 (WA)

Western Australia

Electoral Act 1907

Western Australia

Electoral Act 1907

Electoral Regulations 1996

These regulations may be cited as the Electoral Regulations 1996.

In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears —

ballot paper envelope means an envelope referred to in section 100D(2)(c) of the Act or in regulation 11(1)(c) or (3)(b) or 13(1)(b);

record means any thing or process —

• (a)

  upon or by which information is recorded or stored; or

• (b)

  by means of which a meaning can be conveyed by any means in a visible or recoverable form,

whether or not the use or assistance of some electronic, electrical, mechanical, chemical or other device or process is required to recover or convey the information or meaning.

[Regulation 2 amended: Gazette 10 Nov 2000 p. 6164; 11 May 2007 p. 1995; SL 2024/124 r. 34.]

In any form of declaration or statement made, or to be made, by an officer, clerk, elector or voter, in relation to an election or referendum, a reference in the declaration or statement to a district is, unless the contrary intention appears, to be read and construed, as well, as a reference to the whole of State electorate.

[Regulation 3 amended: SL 2022/195 r. 4.]

The provisions of these regulations, and the forms prescribed in these regulations apply, as nearly as is practicable and with such modifications as are, in the opinion of the Electoral Commissioner, necessary or expedient, as well to more than one election, including one or more referendums, held on the same day as to any other election.

[Regulation 4 amended: SL 2022/195 r. 5.]

[Heading inserted: SL 2024/124 r. 35.]

[5. Deleted: Gazette 20 Oct 2000 p. 5927.]

• (1)

  The declaration by an officer prescribed for the purposes of section 15A of the Act is the declaration in Form 1 in Schedule 2.

• [(2)‑(4)

  deleted]

[Regulation 6 amended: Gazette 8 Nov 1996 p. 6267; SL 2024/124 r. 36.]

• (1)

  The forms in Schedule 3 are prescribed in relation to the matters specified in the forms.

• (2)

  If a form in a schedule is to be completed by the insertion of particulars required in the form, those particulars are prescribed as the particulars required under the provision of the Act or of these regulations for the purposes of which the form is prescribed.

• (3)

  If a form in a schedule contains directions for its completion the form is to be completed in accordance with those directions.

[Heading inserted: SL 2024/124 r. 37.]