Statutory Rules
1980 No. 240
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATION ACT 1922 AND THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 19181
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Northern Territory Representation Act 1922 and the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
Dated this nineteenth day of August 1980.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. E. MCLEAY
Minister of State for Administrative Services
Amendments of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations2
Repeal of regulation 3
1. Regulation 3 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is repealed.
Interpretation
2. Regulation 4 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of “District” and substituting the following definition:
“ ‘District’ means a District of the Territory referred to in regulation 11A;”.
3. After regulation 11 of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations the following regulation is inserted in Part III:
Districts
“11A. (1) The Territory shall be divided into such Districts as the Minister determines by notice published in the Gazette.
“(2) The boundaries of each District shall be as set out in the notice referred to in sub‑regulation (1).”.
Second Schedule
4. The Second Schedule to the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended —
(a) by omitting the item relating to section 151 and the item relating to section 152;
(b) by omitting from the first column “Forms”; and
(c) by omitting the item relating to Form G.
Notes
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 August 1980.
2. Statutory Rules 1947 No. 148 as amended by Statutory Rules 1949 No. 61; 1956 No. 74; 1957 Nos. 3 and 66; 1960 No. 1; 1961 No. 132; 1962 Nos. 49 and 100; 1965 Nos. 15 and 132; 1966 Nos. 29 and 146; 1967 No. 17; 1969 No. 155; 1971 No. 80; 1973 No. 64; 1974 No. 165; 1977 No. 78.