Northern Territory Electoral Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1971 No. 80

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATION ACT 1922-1968, THE NORTHERN TERRITORY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1910-1968 AND THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1966.*

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 1922-1968, the Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1910-1968 and the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1966.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of June, 1971.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for the Interior.

 

Amendments of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations 

1. Regulation 86 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Electors entitled to vote by post.

“86.—(1.) Subject to these Regulations, an elector whose name is enrolled on the electoral Roll for a District for which a polling place is prescribed and—

(a) who, throughout the hours of polling on polling day—

(i) will not be within the Territory;

(ii) will not be within five miles by the nearest practicable route of any polling booth open in the Territory; or

(iii) will be travelling under conditions that will preclude him from voting at any polling booth in the Territory;

(b) who is seriously ill or infirm and by reason of the illness or infirmity will be precluded from attending at a polling booth to vote or, in the case of a women, will, by reason of approaching maternity, be precluded from attending at a polling booth to vote;

(c) who is, by reason of his membership of a religious order or his religious beliefs—

(i) precluded from attending at a polling booth; or

(ii) precluded from voting throughout the hours of polling on polling day or throughout the greater part of those hours; or

(d) whose place of living as appearing on the electoral Roll is not within five miles of any polling place prescribed for the District,

is entitled to vote by post after the date fixed for the receipt of nominations for an election.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1 July 1971.

  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; and 1969, No. 155.

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“(2.) Subject to these Regulations, an elector—

(a) whose name is enrolled on the electoral Roll for a District for which no polling place is prescribed; or

(b) who is an elector by virtue of regulation 22a of these Regulations,

is entitled to vote by post after the date fixed for the receipt of nominations for an election.”.

Officers to issue postal voting papers to certain electors.

2. Regulation 87 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the word “applies”, the words “, not being an elector from whom an application has been received under the next succeeding regulation,”.

Postal voting papers issued pursuant to applications.

3. Regulation 88 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) Where an elector who is entitled to vote by post under regulation 86 of these Regulations—

(a) is not an elector referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of the last preceding regulation; or

(b) is an elector referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of the last preceding regulation and will, between the date fixed for the receipt of nominations and the polling day, be absent from his place of living as appearing on the roll under conditions that will preclude him from voting otherwise than in pursuance of an application made under this sub-regulation,

the elector may make application for a postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper.”.

First Schedule.

4. Form 23 in the First Schedule to the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (3.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(3.) That the ground on which I apply to vote by post is—

(a) that I will not throughout the hours of polling on polling day be within the Northern Territory.

(b) that I will not throughout the hours of polling on polling day be within five miles by the nearest practicable route of any polling booth open in the Northern Territory.

(c) that I will throughout the hours of polling on polling day be travelling under conditions that will preclude me from voting at any polling booth in the Northern Territory.

(d)that I am seriously ill or infirm and, by reason of the illness or infirmity, I will be precluded from attending at any polling booth to vote.

(e) that I will, by reason of approaching maternity, be precluded from attending at any polling booth to vote.

(f) that I am, by reason of my membership of a religious order or my religious beliefs, precluded—

(i) from attending at a polling booth; or

(ii) from voting throughout the hours of polling on polling day or throughout the greater part of those hours.

(g)that my place of living as appearing on the electoral Roll is not within five miles of any polling place prescribed for the District for which I am enrolled and I will be absent from my place of living as appearing on the roll under conditions that will preclude me from voting otherwise than in pursuance of this application.”.

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