Parliamentary Electorates and Elections (Amendment) Act 1970 (NSW)

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS

(AMENDMENT) ACT.

ANNO UNDEVICESIMO

EUZABETHiE H REGINiE

Act No. 57, 1970.

An Act to reduce the age of persons enrolling and voting at elections for the Legislative Assembly from twenty-one to eighteen; for this purpose to amend the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act, 1912; and for purposes connected

therewith. [Assented to, 6th November,! 1970.]

BE

Parliamentary Electorates and Elections {Amendment).

No. 57,1970 D E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by

^ and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: —

Short title	1. (1) This Act may be cited as the “Parliamentary (2) This Act shall commence upon a day to be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.
and com­
mencement.	Electorates and Elections (Amendment) Act, 1970”.

Amendment	2. The Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act,
of Act No.

41, 1912. 1912, is amended—

Sec. 20. (a) by omitting from subsection one of section twenty

(Qualifi­

the word “twenty-one” and by inserting in lieu

cation of

electors

thereof the word “eighteen” ;

for the

Assembly.)

Sec. 41. (b) (i) by omitting from subsection one of section

(Informa­	forty-one the word “twenty-one” and by
tion as to

deaths	inserting in lieu thereof the word “eighteen” ; (ii) by omitting from paragraph (a) of subsection two of the same section the word “twenty- one” and by inserting in lieu thereof the word “eighteen” ;
and con­
victions.)

Sec. 100. (c) by omitting paragraph (b) of subsection one of

(Questions	section one hundred and by inserting in lieu thereof Are you of or above the age of eighteen years?
to be put
if voter	the following paragraph : —

challenged.) (b)

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