Statutory Rules
1981 No. 82
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATION ACT 1922 AND THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918*
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 twenty-eighth day of April 1981.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency's Command,
KEVIN NEWMAN
Minister of State for Administrative Services
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AMENDMENTS OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY ELECTORAL REGULATIONS†
Absent voters' ballot-papers—action taken by Assistant Returning Officer
1. Regulation 97e of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) "or by registered post" and substituting ", registered post or courier service "; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:
"(4) In paragraph (2) (b), 'courier service' means a service approved by the Chief Australian Electoral Officer that provides for the collection, at the request of a person using the service, of an article from a place in
* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 May 1981.
† Statutory Rules 1947 No. 148 as amended to date. For previous amendments see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1981 No. 81 and see also Statutory Rules 1981 No. 81.
Australia specified by or on behalf of the person and the conveyance (whether by aircraft or otherwise) and delivery of the article to another place in Australia that is so specified.".
Preliminary Scrutiny
2. Regulation 118b of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) all the words after "poll," and substituting "the officer conducting the scrutiny certifies that the name of the elector appears on the record forwarded to him by the Presiding Officer under sub-regulation 97d (2)".