Commonwealth Electoral (COVID Enfranchisement) Amendment Regulations 2022

I, the Honourable Linda Dessau AC, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 20 May 2022

Linda Dessau

Administrator

By Her Excellency’s Command

Ben Morton

Special Minister of State

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Commonwealth Electoral (COVID Enfranchisement) Regulations 2022

1  Name

  This instrument is the Commonwealth Electoral (COVID Enfranchisement) Amendment Regulations 2022.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Commonwealth Electoral (COVID Enfranchisement) Regulations 2022

1  Subparagraph 8(2)(c)(i)

Omit “Tuesday that is 4 days”, substitute “Friday that is 8 days”.

2  Paragraph 8(2)(e)

Omit “throughout”, substitute “at any time during”.

3  Paragraph 9(2)(c)

Omit “throughout”, substitute “at a time during”.