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Electoral and Referendum Regulations (Amendment)

Authoritative Version
  • - F1996B04233
  • No longer in force
SR 1973 No. 62 Regulations as made
These Regulations amend the Electoral and Referendum Regulations.
Administered by: Finance
General Comments: These Regulations were originally made under s 35 of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906 and s 395 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and are continued in force under s 144 of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 and s 395 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (see s 145 of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984). This instrument was backcaptured in accordance with Section 36 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
Registered 01 Jan 2005
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled Senate29-Mar-1973
Gazetted 21 Mar 1973
Date of repeal 19 Mar 2014
Repealed by Finance (Spent and Redundant Instruments) Repeal Regulation 2014

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Statutory Rules

1973 No. 62

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1973

AND THE REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION ALTERATION) ACT 1906-1966.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1973 and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906-1966.

Dated this twentieth day of March, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

F. M. DALY

Minister of State for Services and Property.

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Amendments of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations†

1. After regulation 4 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Modification of forms in joint rolls.

“ 4a. Where, in pursuance of an arrangement made with a State under section 32 of the Act joint rolls are kept in that State, any form provided for by the joint regulations relating to those rolls shall, by force of this regulation, be modified by substituting for any reference to twenty-one years a reference to eighteen years.”.

Form of application for postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper.

2. Regulation 40 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) the word “ and ”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1) the figures “ 21 ” and substituting the figures “ 18 ”;

(c) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1) the word “ and ” (last occurring); and

(d) by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1).

The Schedule —Form 2.

3. Form 2 in the Schedule to the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph 2 the figures “ 21 ” and substituting the figures “ 18 ”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21 March 1973.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 163, as amended by Statutory Rules 1949, No. 62; 1954, No. 27; 1961, No. 103; and 1966, No. 140.

The Schedule-Form 26a.

4. Form 26a in the Schedule to the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by omitting the figures “ 21 ” (wherever occurring) and substituting the figures “ 18 ”.

The Schedule— Form 26b.

5. Form 26b in the Schedule to the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is repealed.