Northern Territory Electoral Regulations (Amendments) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1981 No. 82

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations 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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AMENDMENTS OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY ELECTORAL REGULATIONS 

Absent voters' ballot-papers—action taken by Assistant Returning Officer

1. Regulation 97eof the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) "or by registered post" and substituting ", registered post or courier service "; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

"(4) In paragraph (2) (b), 'courier service' means a service approved by the Chief Australian Electoral Officer that provides for the collection, at the request of a person using the service, of an article from a place in

 

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

  Statutory Rules 1947 No. 148 as amended to date. For previous amendments see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1981 No. 81 and see also Statutory Rules 1981 No. 81.

Australia specified by or on behalf of the person and the conveyance (whether by aircraft or otherwise) and delivery of the article to another place in Australia that is so specified.".

Preliminary Scrutiny

2. Regulation 118b