Northern Territory Electoral Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1923. No. 5.

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

Dated this eighth day of January, 1923.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Home and Territories.

 

Amendment of Northern Territory Electoral Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1922, No. 154, as amended by Statutory Rules 1922, Nos. 167 and 168.)

1. Regulation 120 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in the first proviso thereto, after the words “polling day” the words “, or in the case of an electoral claim for the Batchelor Subdivision, on or before the twentieth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three,”; and

(b) by inserting in the second proviso thereto, after the words “polling day” the words “, or, in the case of the Batchelor Subdivision until the twentieth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three ”.

2. After regulation 120 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations the following regulations are added

Extension of time for voting in Batchelor Subdivision

“121. Notwithstanding anything contained in regulations 85, 104, and 105 of these Regulations, where, at the first election held after the coming into operation of these Regulations, the Returning Officer has, prior to eight o’clock in the evening of the day fixed for the close of the poll, sent to an elector in the Batchelor Subdivision a postal vote certificate and form of declaration and a postal ballot-paper, and is satisfied that the elector received the postal vote certificate and form of declaration and postal ballot-paper after the day

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fixed for the close of the poll, or after eight o’clock in the evening of that day, and did not otherwise vote at the election, a postal vote recorded by the elector, on the postal ballot-paper so received by him, after that time and not later than the thirty-first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and received by the Returning Officer not later than the twentieth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, shall be deemed to be as valid; and shall be dealt with in the same manner, as if it had been recorded and received within the respective times specified in regulation 104 of these Regulations.

Date of return of writ for first election.

“ 122. Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations, or anything done under these Regulations before the commencement of this regulation, the date for the return of the writ for the first election held after the coming into operation of these Regulations shall be the twenty-sixth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.”.

3. Regulation 14 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by adding at the end of paragraph (b) the words “or, in the case of a claim for enrolment for the Batchelor Subdivision, on or before the twentieth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.”

4. Regulation 105 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (i) the word “ Registrar” and inserting in its stead the word “ Clerk ”.

 

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