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Electoral and Referendum Regulations (Amendment)

Authoritative Version
  • - F1996B04236
  • No longer in force
SR 1981 No. 80 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General Comments: These Regulations were originally made under s 35 of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906 and s 395 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and are continued in force under s 144 of the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 HR12-May-1981
Tabled Senate12-May-1981
Gazetted 06 May 1981
Date of repeal 19 Mar 2014
Repealed by Finance (Spent and Redundant Instruments) Repeal Regulation 2014

Statutory Rules

1981 No. 80

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL

ACT 1918 AND THE REFERENDUM (CONSTITUTION

ALTERATION) ACT 19061

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 Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906.

          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

_______________

AMENDMENTS OF THE ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM
REGULATIONS2

                Interpretation

          1.   Regulation 5 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by inserting before the definition of “referendum” in sub-regulation (1) the following definition:

“‘courier service’ means a service that provides for the collection, at the request of a person using the service, of an article from a place in 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, being a service approved by the Australian Electoral Officer for a State;”.

                Postal ballot-paper received by Divisional Returning Officer or Assistant Returning Officer

          2.   Regulation 45 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (iii) of sub-regulation (1) “or registered post” and substituting “, registered post or courier service”.

                Postal ballot-paper taken from ballot-box—action by Assistant Returning Officer

          3.   Regulation 47 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (c) “or registered post” and substituting “, registered post or courier service”.

                Absent voters’ ballot-papers—action by Assistant Returning Officer

          4.   Regulation 56 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) “or registered post” and substituting “, registered post or courier service”.

                Preliminary scrutiny

          5.   Regulation 59 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1) all the words after “poll” and substituting “the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division in which the declaration was made certifies that the name of the elector appears on a record of absent voters made under regulation 55”.

                Action by Assistant Returning Officer

          6.   Regulation 70 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) “or registered post” and substituting “, registered post or courier service”.

 

NOTES

1.       Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 May 1981.

2.       Statutory Rules 1940 No. 163 as amended by Statutory Rules 1949 No. 62; 1954 No. 27; 1961 No. 103; 1966 No. 140; 1973 No. 62; 1974 No. 44; 1980 No. 241.