Northern Territory Electoral Regulations 1922 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1926. No. 170.

REGULATION UNDER THE NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATION ACT 1922-1925 AND THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1925.

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 Northern Territory Representation Act 1922-1925 and the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1925, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated the first day of December, 1926.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

T. W. GLASGOW,

Minister of State for Home and Territories.

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Amendment of Northern Territory Electoral Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1922, No. 154, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 11 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulation is amended—

(a) by inserting, after the word “specified”, the words “from time to time”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(2) When the Territory is divided into Subdivisions or the boundaries of a Subdivision are altered, or a new Subdivision is proclaimed, such changes as are thereby rendered necessary for the transfer of the names of electors from one roll to another roll shall be effected by removing the names of those electors from the roll from which they are changed and by inserting the names so removed on the roll to which they are changed.

“(3) Notice of the change of electors from one roll to another pursuant to this regulation shall be sent by post to each elector concerned by the Electoral Registrar for the Subdivision to which the elector’s name has been changed.”.

 

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