Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act of 1893 Further Amendment Act of 1894 (NSW)

IVo. 24. 5? VIC. 1894.

P ari lament arif Plectorates and Elections Act o f 1893 Further Amendment (No. 2).

No. XXIV.

1 u lAM :n , u V to amend tlie “ Paidiamentarv Elccto-

.hi.Ker/OM'j'Ks .wo »

'̂'isiKrKnm'mr' mtes aiid Elections Act of 1893.” [2nd

amks„>̂ (x„..). jiuie, 1894.]

'T ) E it enacted l>y the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with .1 4 tlie advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legisla­ tive Assembly of New South IVales in Parliament asseml)led, and l)y tlic authority of the same, as follows :—

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1. If any person proves to the satisfaction of tlie Chief bilcctoral Olhccr that a mistake has been made in his enrolment on any lloll in respect of his name, occupation, or residence, or in any otlier particular, the Chief Electoral Oflicer may amend such Roll or cause it to be amended accordingly, and on receiving tlie Elector’s Eight originally issued may issue an Elector’s Eight in accordance tliercwitli.

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1‘riiicipal Act 2. Section thirty-eight of tlie Principal vket is amended by the

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substitution of the words “ section thirty-six” for the words “ the

next preceding section.”

Section eighty-two, subsection (i), is amended by the substitu­ tion of the word “ for ” for the word “ within.”

Section eighty-two, subsection (ii), question (i), is amended by

the substitution of the ivords “ the District for which the Elector’s

Eight noAv exhibited by you Mas issued” for the M'ords “ this District.”

Elector im.viii;^ from 3 . Aiiv ncrsoii tcndcrin" his vote under section ciirhtv-two of

.•inotii'r'mny still Pi'iiiciiial Act if still a I’csident in the District for a Division of

vote for his iiistrict.-which lic obtaiucd his Elector’s Eight shall be entitled to vote for sucli District notwithstanding that he shall have changed his jilace of residence from such Division to another in the same District, and the term “ qualification” in the prescribed question (iii) in the aforesaid section shall be held to mean residence in the District for a Division in Avliich he acquired his Eight.

Atldii ioiml List.	4. In each District the Electoral Eegistrar shall make out and, on the sevcntli day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-Jbur, complete, according to the Eorm in Schedule E of tlie Principal Act, and sign a List to be called tbe Additional List, arranged in tlie alplialictical order of the surnames, of the names of all persons to wliom, according to the butts in the possession of such Eegistrar and of the Deputy Eegistrars for such District, Electors’ Eights and substituted Electors’ Eiglits have been issued under sections thirty- six, tliirty-eiglit, and tliirty-nine of the Principal Act, Avliicli Eiglits are still in force for such District, and which names have not been included in tlic Eirst General Eoll for such District; and shall enter in every such List from the said butts the prescribed particulars.
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be exliil);te(l.	5. Each such Eegistrar after completing such Additional .List for the District shall on the same or the next day sign and transmit two copies of such .List to one of the Clerks of Petty Sessions in such District, and one copy to the person in charge of each post otficc
Avithin the ])istrict, Avhich person shall cause the same to be exhibited
in some conspicuous position Avithin or outside of such office, until the
lAvcnlicth (lay of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

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Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act q/'1893 Further Amendment (Xo. 2).

G. Such Clerk of Petty Sessions shall, between the seventh Noiic-o of the imuiing

day of June and the eighteenth day of June, by advertisements in two cmiu ilfbeXon

issues of a newspaper published or circulating in the District, give	"
notice that a Eevision Court will ho held as hereinafter provided, and that copies of the Additional U st may he inspected at the post olhces within the District, and he shall act as Revision Clerk at such Court.

7. Each additional List shall he revised on the twentieth, and if Kovî onCom-ttobo

necessary also on the twenty-nrst day oi June, one thousand ci^’ht on 2ot]i June, by notice in the Gazette.

hundi-ed and ninety-four, by a Revision Court, to bo held for eacli

District at a place to he appointed by the Governor, before such

8 . I t shall he the duty of such Court to inquire whether Adaiiionai Boil.

Electors’ Rights for such District have been duly issued under sections thirty-six, thirty-eight, and thirty-nine of the Principal Act to persons duly entitled thereto hut not enrolled, and in each case in which the said Court shall be satisfied that an Elector’s Right for such District has been so duly issued to a person still entitled thereto, and that such person has not yet been enrolled for such District, the said Coiirt shall insert such person’s name on a Roll to be called the Additional Roll for the District. Immediately on the completion of the Additional Roll a copy thereof, certified as correct under the hand of the Presiding Magistrate, shall be sent by the Prevision Clerk to the Chief Electoral Officer, who shall cause the same to be at once printed, and shall forthwith forward a sulficient number of copies thereof to the proper Returning Officer. The Additional Roll shall for all purposes be deemed part of the General Roll.

9. The Governor may make regulations jirescribing the form of Goviinoi- may make

the said Rolls, the manner in which they shall be kept, the particulars Avhich shall he entered therein, and all other matters concerning the same, and generally for carrying the provisions of this Act into full effect; and section one hundred and forty-one of the Principal Act shall apply to all such regulations.

10. The provisions in the Principal Act compelling and r e g u - T y n e of writs for .a

lating the issue of writs J'or a General Election upon the dissolution <'f

the Legislative Assembly shall apply equally to the case of a Legis- A y o m b iy expires i>y

lative Assembly allowed to expire by efiluxion of time.

11 . This Act shall be cited as the “ Parliamentary Electorates siimt title,

and Elections Act of 1893 Eurthcr Amendment Act of 1891, ” and shall be construed as one with the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act of 1893 herein referred to as the Principal Act.

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