Northern Territory Electoral Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1922. No. 167.

 

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

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 TerritoryRepresentation Act 1922 and the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1922, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this second day of November, 1922.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. D. MILLEN,

for Minister of State for Home and Territories.

 

Amendment of Northern Territory Electoral Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1922, No 154.)

1. Regulation 55 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by adding at the end of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1), the words “or, in the case of the first election held under these Regulations, by not less than six persons whose names are set out in a list, prepared by the Returning Officer pursuant to the Proclamation of the 11th day of October, 1922, for the preparation of the first Roll for the Territory, setting out the names of persons who, to the best of the Returning Officer’s means of information, are qualified to be enrolled as electors of the Territory.”

Meaning of electoral roll and certified copy of roll.

2. After regulation 119 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“120. For the purposes of the first election held under these Regulations a person shall be deemed to be enrolled on the electoral Roll for a subdivision for which no polling place is prescribed if his name is on a list, prepared in respect of the subdivision by the Returning Officer pursuant to the proclamation of the 11th day of October, 1922, for the preparation of the first Roll for the Territory, setting out the names of persons who, to the best of the Returning Officer’s means of information, are qualified to be enrolled as electors of the Territory, and that list shall be deemed to be the certified Roll prepared in accordance with that Proclamation.

Provided that nothing in this regulation shall authorize any vote being finally counted unless a duly completed electoral claim is received by the Registrar from the voter, within two months of the polling day and the Registrar is satisfied that the voter is entitled to be enrolled on the electoral Roll for the Subdivision in respect of which he has voted.

 

Provided further that where at the preliminary scrutiny of ballot-papers for any such subdivision, the Returning Officer has not received a duly completed claim for enrolment from any person from whom he has received a ballot-paper, he shall defer the ballot-paper for scrutiny until that person in enrolled pursuant to a claim for enrolment, or until two months after polling day, whichever first happens, and shall thereupon proceed with the scrutiny of the ballot-paper”.

 

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