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Electoral and Referendum Regulations 2026
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This item is authorised by the following titles:
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
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F2026L00295
20 March 2026
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Simplified outline of this instrument
5 Schedule 3
6 Definitions
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Part 2—Electoral roll matters
7 Simplified outline of this Part
8 Prescribed authorities
9 Arrangements with States—form of Roll
10 Authorisation of provision of information to a prescribed authority
11 Permitted purposes for use of information—prescribed authorities
12 Permitted purposes for use of information—Commonwealth funded blood service
13 Permitted purpose for use of information—Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated
14 Permitted purposes for use of information—other persons or organisations
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Part 3—Enrolment matters
15 Simplified outline of this Part
16 Additional evidence of identity requirements
17 Provisional enrolment by applicant for citizenship—prescribed electors
18 Enrolment-related claims or notices do not have to be signed in certain circumstances
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Part 4—Electronically assisted voting methods
19 Simplified outline of this Part
20 Purpose of Part
21 Authorised call centres
22 Registration
23 Electoral Commissioner to make arrangements relating to electronically assisted voting
24 Voting by electronically assisted vote
25 Enabling registered electronically assisted voter to vote
26 Requirements relating to ballot-boxes
27 Scrutineers at authorised call centres
28 Offences—interference and communication by scrutineers
29 Recording of names of electronically assisted voters
30 Sorting and forwarding of ballot papers
31 Scrutiny of ballot papers
32 Offences related to electronically assisted voting
33 Protection of electronic voting hardware or software
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Part 5—Application and transitional matters
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Division 1—Provisions relating to the commencement of this instrument
34 Applications made before commencement
35 Electronically assisted voting
36 Transitional arrangements—prescribed authorities and permitted purposes
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Schedule 1—Prescribed authorities and permitted purposes for use of information
1 Prescribed authorities and permitted purposes for use of information
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Schedule 2—Prescribed electors
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1 Prescribed classes of electors—applications for provisional enrolment by persons about to become Australian citizens
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Schedule 3—Repeals
Electoral and Referendum Regulation 2016