Northern Territory Electoral Regulations 1926 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1928. No. 119.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATION ACT 1922-1925 AND THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1928.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Northern Territory Representation Act 1922-1925 and the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1928, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated the twenty-seventh day of November, 1928.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. J. McLACHLAN

for Minister of State for Home and Territories.

 

Amendment of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 200, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 54 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended:—

(a) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (7) the following proviso:—

“Provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in—

(a) the Commonwealth Electoral Act,

(b) these Regulations, and

(c) the writ issued on 9th October, 1928, for an election of a member of the House of Representatives to represent the Northern Territory,

the date fixed for the polling for the purpose of the election in accordance with such writ shall, for the sub-division of Batchelor, be the 31st January, 1929.”; and

(b) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (8) the following proviso:—

“Provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in—

(a) the Commonwealth Electoral Act,

(b) these Regulations, and

(c) the writ issued on 9th October, 1928, for an election of a member of the House of Representatives to represent the Northern Territory,

the date fixed for the return of such writ shall be the 2nd April, 1929.”.

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

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