Northern Territory Electoral Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1981 No. 81

REGULATION UNDER THE NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATION ACT 1922 AND THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of 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 and the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of April 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

KEVIN NEWMAN

Minister of State for Administrative Services

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AMENDMENT OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY ELECTORAL REGULATIONS 

Writs for election

Regulation 54 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (8) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

"(8) The date fixed for the return of the Writ shall not be more than 90 days after the issue of the Writ.".

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 May 1981.

  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; 1962 Nos. 49 and 100; 1965 Nos. 15 and 132; 1966 Nos. 29 and 146; 1967 No. 17; 1969 No. 155; 1971 No. 80; 1973 No. 64; 1974 No. 165; 1977 No. 78; and 1980 No. 240.