Local Government Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2015 (Qld)

Queensland Local Government Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2015 Subordinate Legislation 2015 No. 143 made under the Local Government Electoral Act 2011 Contents Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Insertion of new ss 3 and 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Electors who may cast an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 68(5B)(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Approval of procedure for electronically assisted voting—Act, s 75A(3)(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Local Government Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2015 [s 1] 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Local Government Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2015 . 2 Regulation amended This regulation amends the LocalGovernmentElectoralRegulation 2012. 3 Insertion of new ss 3 and 4 After section 2— insert — 3 Electors who may cast an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 68(5B)(c) (1) For section 68(5B)(c) of the Act, the following classes of electors are prescribed— (a) special postal voters; (b) distance voters. (2) In this section— distance voter means an elector whose address, as shown on the voters roll, is more than 20km, by the nearest practicable route, from a polling booth. 4 Approval of procedure for electronically assisted voting—Act, s 75A(3)(a) For section 75A(3)(a) of the Act, the procedures set out in the document called ‘‘Electronically assisted voting procedures’ for local government elections’ made by the electoral commission on 8 September 2015 are approved. Page 2 2015 SL No. 143

Local Government Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2015 ENDNOTES 1 Made by the Governor in Council on 22 October 2015. 2 Notified on the Queensland legislation website on 23 October 2015. 3 The administering agency is the Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning. © State of Queensland 2015 Authorised by the Parliamentary Counsel 2015 SL No. 143 Page 3