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

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 275

REGULATION UNDER THE SENATE (REPRESENTATION OF TERRITORIES) ACT 19731

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 seventeenth day of September 1980.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. E. MCLEAY

Minister of State for Administrative Services

AMENDMENTS OF THE SENATE (REPRESENTATION OF TERRITORIES) REGULATIONS2

Schedule 2

Schedule 2 to the Senate (Representation of Territories) Regulations is amended —

• (a)

  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 1918in 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.’ ”;

• (b)

  by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) of regulation 56 in the item relating to regulations 55 to 60 (inclusive) “or by registered post” and substituting “, registered post or courier service”; and

• (c)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (2) of regulation 59 in the item relating to regulations 55 to 60 (inclusive) all the words after “poll”, and substituting “the officer conducting the scrutiny certifies that the name of the elector appears on a duly certified record of absent voters made by the Presiding Officer under regulation 55”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 September 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 208 as amended by Statutory Rules 1980 No. 242.