Northern Territory Electoral Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1962. No. 100.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATION ACT 1922-1959, THE NORTHERN TERRITORY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1910-1961 AND THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1962.*

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 1922-1959, the Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1910-1961 and the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1962.

Dated this twenty fifth day of October, 1962.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Interior and for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Territories.

 

Amendments of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations. 

Change of electors from one roll to another.

1. Regulation 12 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (3.) and (4.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) Where the names of electors are transferred from one Roll to another Roll under this regulation, the Chief Electoral Officer shall—

(a) cause notice of the transfer to be published in the Government Gazette of the Northern Territory and in a newspaper circulating in the localities concerned; or

(b) if he considers that publication of a notice under the last preceding paragraph would not be reasonably effective to give notice of the transfer to the electors whose names have been so transferred, cause notice of the transfer to be sent by post to each elector concerned.”.

Postal voting papers issued pursuant to applications.

2. Regulation 88 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2a.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(2a.) An application under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation shall be deemed not to have been duly made to an officer if it reaches the officer—

(a) in a case-where the applicant personally delivers it to the officer—after eight o’clock in the evening of polling day; or

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1st November, 1962.

  Statutory Rules 1947, No. 148; as amended by Statutory Rules 1949, No. 61; 1956, No. 74;1957, Nos. 3 and 66; 1960, No. 1; 1961, No. 132; and 1962, No. 49.

8978/62.—Price 3d. 10/17.10.1962.

 

(b) in any other case—after six o’clock in the evening of the day preceding polling day,

reckoned according to the relevant standard or legal time as ascertained under the next succeeding sub-regulation.

“(2b.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, the relevant standard or legal time, in relation to an application under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, is—

(a) where the application is made to an officer at a place in Australia—standard or legal time at that place; or

(b) in any other case—standard or legal time in the Territory.”.

First Schedule.

3. The First Schedule to the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from Form 25 the words “forty days” and inserting in their stead the words “twenty-eight days”;

(b) by omitting from Form 26 the words “forty days” and inserting in their stead the words “twenty-eight days”; and

(c) by omitting from Form 36 the words “each of the Electoral Districts of Alice Springs, Arnhem, Barkly, Elsey, Fannie Bay, Larrakeyah, Port Darwin and Stuart respectively, to serve in the Legislative Council for the Northern Territory” and inserting in their stead the words “the Electoral District (or each of the Electoral Districts) of  to serve in the Legislative Council for the Northern Territory”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.