Parliamentary Electorates and Elections (Legislative Assembly) Amendment Act 1982 (NSW)

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS

(LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY) AMENDMENT ACT, 1982, No. 47

Wales!

ANNO TRICESIMO PRIMO

ELIZABETH^; U REGIN^E

Act No. 47, 1982.

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act, 1912, to permit the use of crosses and ticks on ballot-papers at elections for the Legislative Assembly. [Assented to, 6th May, 1982.]

See also Election Funding (Legislative Assembly) Amendment Act, 1982,

A ct No. 47, 1982. 2

Parliamentary Electoratex and Elections {Legislative Assembly) Amendment.

BE 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.     This Act may be cited as the “Parliamentary Electorates and Elections

(Legislative Assembly) Amendment Act, 1982”.

Amendment of Act No. 41, 1912.

2. The Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act, 1912, is amended

by inserting after section 122a. (3) the following subsection:—

(4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, a ballot-paper shall not be informal by reason only that the voter has recorded his vote by placing a cross or a tick in a square and not placing any mark or writing in any other square, but the ballot-paper shall be treated as if the cross or tick were the number “1”,