Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Regulation 2011 (NSW)

2011 No 135

New South Wales

Parliamentary Electorates and

Elections Amendment Regulation 2011

under the

Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912.

KRISTINA KENEALLY, MP

Premier

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Regulation 2008 (as a consequence of recent amendments to the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912):

(a)	to omit obsolete provisions and forms, and
(b)	to update certain references including to provisions of the Act, and
(c)	to prescribe evidence of identity required to support claims for enrolment or transfers of enrolment under the Act.

This Regulation is made under the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912, including sections 27 and 176 (the general regulation-making power).

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Clause 1	Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Regulation 2011

Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment

Regulation 2011

under the

Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections
Amendment Regulation 2011.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the
NSW legislation website.

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Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Regulation 2011

Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Regulation 2008	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Regulation 2008

[1]      Clauses 5, 7, 9–11, 16, 18–20, 23, 26, 30 and 31

Omit the clauses.

[2]      Clause 6

Omit the clause. Insert instead:

6      Enrolment

For the purposes of section 27 (4) (b) and (8) of the Act, a claim for enrolment under section 27 (1) or (3) or a transfer of enrolment under section 27 (2) must be supported by one of the following:

(a)

if the claimant holds a driver’s licence issued under the law of a State or Territory—the number of the driver’s licence,

(b)

if the claimant holds an Australian passport—the number of the Australian passport,

(c)

an attestation as to the claimant’s identity that is:

(i)	in the approved form, and
(ii)	signed by another person who is enrolled.

Note. Section 106 of the Act (Provisional voting) requires a claim for enrolment or for a transfer of enrolment under that section to be supported by the evidence of the claimant’s identity that is required by this clause.

[3]      Clauses 15 (1), 24 (2) and (3) and 25 (1) and (2)

Omit the subclauses.

[4]      Clause 17 Registration of electoral material

Omit “the appropriate form approved by the Electoral Commissioner”.
Insert instead “the approved form”.

[5]      Schedule 1 Forms

Omit Forms 8–15, 17 and 18.