Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Regulations (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1911. No. 19.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) ACT 1906-1910.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following regulation under the Referendum (Constitution Alteration)Act 1906-1910 should come into immediate operation, and make the regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated the twentieth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

KING O’MALLEY,

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

 

Provision for taking a State Poll in conjunction with a Referendum.

1. Where any Poll under the law of a State is being taken in a State on the same day as a Referendum, and it has been arranged that the Poll shall be taken and conducted by Commonwealth Officials, it shall be lawful:—

(a)For the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State and other Electoral Officials employed in connexion with the taking of the Referendum to act in the taking and conducting of the Poll;

(b)for the Commonwealth Polling-booths, ballot-boxes, and machinery for use in connexion with the Referendum to be used in connexion with the Poll;

(c)for postal ballot-papers or absent voters’ ballot-papers containing votes on the Poll to be placed and enclosed in the same envelopes as postal or absent voters’ ballot-papers containing votes on the Referendum;

(d)for ballot-papers containing votes on the Poll to be placed in the same ballot-boxes as ballot-papers containing votes on the Referendum; and

(e)for any official mark placed on ballot-papers for the Referendum to be placed on ballot-papers for the Poll.

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by J. Kemp, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.2538.—Price 3d.