COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1977

No. 116 of 1977

An Act relating to Proclamations with respect to the distribution of the States into Electoral Divisions.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Act (No. 2) 1977.

(2) The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. Subject to sub-section 3(2), this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Redistribution

3. (1) Section 25 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (4).

(2) Sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have come into operation immediately after the commencement of the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Act 1977.

Validation

4. The Proclamation by the Governor-General dated 7 April 1977 and published in the Gazette on 12 April 1977 directing that a redistribution of the State of Western Australia into Electoral Divisions be made, and everything done, or purporting to have been done, by virtue of the Proclamation or in relation to or for the purposes of the redistribution, have effect, and shall be deemed to have had effect, at all times and for all purposes, as if the Proclamation had been made in pursuance of section 25 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.