Papua and New Guinea (Election Qualifications) Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1967 No. 153

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA ACT 1949-1966.*

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 Papua and New Guinea Act 1949-1966.

Dated this seventeenth day of November, 1967.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. E. Barnes

Minister of State for Territories.

 

PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA (ELECTION QUALIFICATIONS) REGULATIONS

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Papua and New Guinea (Election Qualifications) Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“the Act” means the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949-1966;

“the Chief Electoral Officer” means the person for the time being holding, or performing the duties of, the office of Chief Electoral Officer for the purposes of the law of the Territory relating to the election of elected members of the House of Assembly;

“the Director of Education” means the person for the time being holding, or performing the duties of, the office of Director of Education in the Public Service;

“the Intermediate Certificate” means the certificate of that name granted by the Department of Education of the Territory.

Educational qualifications.

3.—(1.) The award of the Intermediate Certificate is an educational qualification for the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) of section 36 of the Act.

(2.) The Chief Electoral Officer may, by instrument in writing, determine that educational qualifications specified in the determination are educational qualifications for the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) of section 36 of the Act.

(3.) The Chief Electoral Officer shall not make such a determination in respect of any educational qualifications unless the Director of Education has certified that, in his opinion, those educational qualifications are of a standard

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 20 November, 1967.

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that is not lower than the educational qualification referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.

(4.) A determination under this regulation—

(a) takes effect on the date on which it is made; and

(b) shall be notified in the Government Gazette.

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra