Representation Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 211.

 

REGULATIONS MADE UNDER THE REPRESENTATION ACT 1906.

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 1906, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this second day of December, 1925.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Home and Territories.

 

Representation Regulations.

Short title.

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

2. 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 in the following manner in lieu of that specified in Schedule A to the Representation Act 1905:—

(a) 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 shall be ascertained.

(b) The Chief Electoral Officer may accept as evidence of increases or decreases, and of the number of persons who by section twenty-five or section one hundred and twenty-seven 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.

(c) 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 as follows—

(i) In the case of births and deaths, from the Registrar-General of Births and Deaths, or the officer filling a corresponding position in any State;

(ii) In the case of arrivals and departures by sea, from the Department of Trade and Customs;

(iii) In the case of arrivals and departures by rail, from the official counts of border railway migration.

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(d) To the recorded number of persons departing from any State to a destination outside Australia there shall be added one per cent., in respect of males and four and one-half per centum in respect of females recorded as so departing, to allow for unrecorded migration.

(e) The inter-State departures from the several States shall be adjusted by the deduction in the case of New South Wales of 65, and in the case of Queensland of 480, from the number of such departures recorded in each quarter; and in the case of the other States the adjustment shall take the form of an addition to the number of departures recorded, the numbers so added in each quarter being 160 in the case of Victoria, 75 in the case of South Australia, 210 in the case of Western Australia, and 90 in the case of Tasmania, to allow for unrecorded migration.

 

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