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Electoral and Referendum Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 5)

Authoritative Version
  • - F2007L04094
  • No longer in force
SLI 2007 No. 354 Regulations as made
These Regulations amend the Electoral and Referendum Regulations 1940 to prescribe the Department of the Environment and Water Resources as an authority that may be provided with electoral roll information along with the purposes for which that information may be used and also prescribe a purpose for which the Australian Red Cross Blood Service may use roll information.
Administered by: Finance
Registered 19 Oct 2007
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR12-Feb-2008
Tabled Senate12-Feb-2008
Date of repeal 19 Mar 2014
Repealed by Finance (Spent and Redundant Instruments) Repeal Regulation 2014

Electoral and Referendum Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 5)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2007 No. 354

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984.

Dated 17 October 2007

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

GARY NAIRN

1              Name of Regulations

                These Regulations are the Electoral and Referendum Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 5).

2              Commencement

                These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3              Amendment of Electoral and Referendum Regulations 1940

                Schedule 1 amends the Electoral and Referendum Regulations 1940.

Schedule 1        Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]           After regulation 8

insert

8A           Permitted purposes for use of information: Australian Red Cross Blood Service

                For paragraph 91A (2A) (c) of the Act, the following purposes are prescribed for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service:

                (a)    contacting any blood donor who has tested positive for a blood‑borne infection;

               (b)    contacting any person who has received a transfusion of blood donated by a person mentioned in paragraph (a);

                (c)    contacting any donor whose blood was transfused to a person who has since tested positive for a blood‑borne infection;

               (d)    contacting any donor whose blood was transfused to a person who has had a suspected adverse reaction to the blood.

[2]           Schedule 1, after item 16

insert

16A

Department of the Environment and Water Resources

Verifying the principal place of residence of applicants under the Photovoltaic Rebate Programme and the Solar Hot Water Rebate Programme

Note

1.       All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.frli.gov.au.