COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918
REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) ACT 1906
ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1983 NO. 114
Issued by the Authority of the Special Minister of State
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The Electoral and Referendum Regulations make provision for Commonwealth electoral and referendum administration and the purpose of this regulation is to make a new provision in that regard.
The new regulation will permit, after an election can no longer be challenged, the opening of sealed parcels of ballot-papers, certified lists of voters, certified copies of rolls, forms of declaration and postal vote certificates used at an election or referendum for the purposes of collecting statistical information in relation to the election or referendum. The amendment will enable - for example, a full distribution of preferences for statistical purposes in those Divisions in which the elected Member received an absolute majority of first preference votes, and any other analysis of preferences and their distribution.