Electoral Roll Act of 1866 No 32a (NSW)

No. XXI.

An Act to authorize the employment of the

Police in collecting the Electoral Roll.	[22nd
December, 1866.]

before the first day of January in each year the Courts of Petty	WHEREAS by the sixteenth section of the Electoral Act of 1858 twenty-two Victoria number twenty it is enacted that on or
Sessions of the several Police Districts shall appoint Collectors of Electoral Lists for each of such Police Districts and it is expedient to authorize the employment of members of the Police Force in such capacity And whereas by the seventeenth section of the said Act Clerks of Petty Sessions are directed and required to cause copies of such Lists of their respective Police Districts collected and prepared between the first and twenty-eighth day of January in each year according to the requirements of the said Act to be fixed on the respective Court Houses thereof and in certain other public places for the period
of fourteen days ending on the twenty-eighth day of February following
And whereas in consequence of such restriction and limitation of time
it has been found that much expense and inconvenience have been and will continue to be incurred which might be obviated by enlarging the interval permitted for the printing and transmission to and fro of such Lists Bo it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

1. It shall be lawful for the Courts of Petty Sessions of the several

Police Districts as aforesaid to appoint any one or more members of

the Police Force to be and perform the duties of Collector or Collectors of Electoral Lists in and for each such District And all the provisions with reference to the collection of such Lists in the said Act contained and all the duties obligations privileges rights powers and authorities thereby conferred on Collectors shall except as hereinafter excepted be applicable to and be performed exercised incurred and possessed

seventeenth and twenty-first sections of the said Act contained and repeated the words "twenty-eighth day of March" shall be substituted— and in lieu of the words " eighteenth day of March" in the said last- mentioned section contained the words " eighteenth day of April" shall be substituted—in lieu of the words " eighteenth and twenty-eighth days of March" in the twenty-second section of the said Act the words

by every such member of the Police Force upon his appointment
as such Collector Provided always that nothing in this section con­ tained shall entitle or be taken to entitle any member of the Police Force so appointed as aforesaid to any remuneration for the per­ formance of any or all of the duties attaching to the said office and employment anything in the said Electoral Act hereinbefore referred to to the contrary notwithstanding.
2. The several days and times hereinafter in this present section specifically set forth shall be and they are hereby declared to be respectively substituted and appointed in lieu of the several corres­ ponding days and times appointed by the said last-mentioned Act
viz. :—In lieu of the words " twenty-eighth day of February" in the

words " eighteenth and twenty-eighth days of April" shall he substi­ tuted—in lieu of the words "twenty-eighth day of March" in the twenty- fifth section of the said Act the words "twenty-eighth day of April" shall be substituted—and in lieu of the words "twelfth day of Apri l" thrice contained or referred to in the twenty-sixth section .of the said Act the words "twelfth day of May" shall in each case be substituted

And any further change of time rendered necessary by the said sub­
stitutions and appointments or any of them may for the purposes of this Act be lawfully made And all the provisions and requirements

of the said Electoral Act of 1858 shall be read construed and complied

with as if the several days and times hereinbefore substituted and appointed as aforesaid had been by the said Act originally declared and enacted but so that nothing herein contained shall in any way affect any act matter or thing done or purporting to be done in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act.

3. This Act shall come into operation upon the first day of

January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven and may be

cited as the " Electoral Roll Act of 1866."