Senate (Representation of Territories) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1981 No. 111

REGULATION UNDER THE SENATE (REPRESENTATION OF TERRITORIES) ACT 1973*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Senate (Representation of Territories) Act 1973.

Dated this twentieth day of May 1981.

STANLEY BURBURY

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

KEVIN NEWMAN

Minister of State for Administrative Services

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AMENDMENT OF THE SENATE (REPRESENTATION OF TERRITORIES) REGULATIONS 

Schedule 2

Scheduled to the Senate (Representation of Territories) Regulations is amended by omitting the item relating to regulation 5 and substituting the following item:

“ Regulation 5............. Omit from the definition of ‘courier service’ in sub-regulation (1 ‘Australian Electoral Officer for a State’, substitute ‘Chief Australian Electoral Officer’ Add at the end the following: ‘(4) A reference to a provision of the Act shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as a reference to the corresponding provision of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 in the application of that provision to an election of a Senator or Senators for the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory of Australia, as the case requires.’”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 26 May 1981.

  Statutory Rules 1975 No. 208 as amended by Statutory Rules 1980 Nos. 242 and 275.