Representation Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1934. No. 62.

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REGULATIONS MADE UNDER THE REPRESENTATION ACT 1905.

I, THE GOVERNOR‑GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Representation Act 1905.

Dated this twenty‑third day of May, 1934.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. A. PERKINS

Minister of State for the Interior.

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Representation Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Representation Regulations.

Repeal.

2. The Representation Regulations, being Statutory Rules 1925, No. 211, are hereby repealed.

Allowances to be made in ascertaining the numbers of the people.

3. In ascertaining the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth as on an Enumeration Day (not being a census day) occurring after the commencement of these Regulations, allowances shall be made as prescribed by these Regulations in lieu of these prescribed by Schedule A to the Representation Act 1905.

Method of ascertaining increases and decreases in the numbers of the people.

4.—(1.) The Chief Electoral Officer shall ascertain the increases and decreases in the numbers of the people in each State, arising from births and deaths, and arrivals and departures (whether by sea or rail) during the period from the last census day up to and including the last quarter‑day before Enumeration Day, and for that purpose he may accept as evidence of increases or decreases in the numbers of the people, and of the number of persons who by section 25 or section 127 of the Constitution are required not to be counted, any returns supplied to him by the Government Statistician, of the Commonwealth or of any State.

(2.) Returns supplied by the Government Statistician of the Commonwealth or of any State to the Chief Electoral Officer shall be based on official information received—

(a) in the case of births and deaths—from the Registrar‑General of Births and Deaths, or the officer occupying a corresponding position in any State;

(b) in the case of arrivals and, departures by sea—from the Department of Trade and Customs; and

(c) in the case of arrivals and departures by rail—from the official counts of border railway migration.

Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th May 1934.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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