Statutory Rules 1990 No. 33¹

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Electoral and Referendum Regulations²

(Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

Dated 19 February 1990.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

STEWART WEST

Minister of State for Administrative Services

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After regulation 86 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Classes of articles for the purposes of paragraph 328 (3) (b) of the Act

“87. The following classes of articles are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 328 (3) (b) of the Act:

(a) business or visiting cards that promote the candidacy of any person in an election for the Parliament;

(b) letters and cards:

(i) that bear the name and address (not being a post-office box) of the sender; and

(ii) that do not contain a representation or purported representation of a ballot-paper for use in an election for the Parliament.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 February 1990.

2. Statutory Rules 1940 No. 163 as amended by 1949 No. 62; 1954 No. 27; 1961 No. 103; 1966 No. 140; 1973 No. 62; 1974 No. 44; 1980 No. 241; 1981 Nos. 80 and 84; 1983 Nos. 114, 153, 176, 181, 235, 274 and 313; 1984 No. 287; 1987 Nos. 118 and 119; 1988 Nos. 182 and 339; 1989 No. 32.

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