ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1983 NO. 313 

ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1983 NO. 313 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Commencement  
2. Principal Regulations  
3. Facilities for voting as an absent voter  
4. The Schedule  


1983 No. 313 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 1
Commencement


  1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 26 January 1984.


1983 No. 313 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 2
Principal Regulations


  2. In these Regulations, "Principal Regulations" means the Electoral and
Referendum Regulations.


1983 No. 313 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 3
Facilities for voting as an absent voter


  3. Regulation 50 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting
sub-regulation (3) and substituting the following sub-regulation:
  "(3) The Presiding Officer-
  (a)  shall put to the elector the questions set out in paragraph 115 (1) (a)
of the Act;
  (b)  may, and at the request of any scrutineer shall, also put to the
elector all or any of the questions set out in paragraph 115 (1) (b) of the
Act;
  (c)  shall also put to each elector who answered the question set out in
sub-paragraph 115 (1) (b) (v) of the Act in the negative the question set out
in sub-paragraph 115 (1) (ba) (via) of the Act;
  (d)  shall also put to each elector who answered the question set out in
sub-paragraph 115 (1) (ba) (via) of the Act in the affirmative the question
set out in sub-paragraph 115 (1) (bb) (vib) of the Act; and
  (e)  may, and at the request of any scrutineer shall, also put to the
elector the question set out in paragraph 115 (1) (c) of the Act.".



1983 No. 313 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 4
The Schedule


  4. (1) The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting
paragraph (c) of the declaration in Form 2 and substituting the following
paragraph:

  "(c)  I am an Australian citizen (or a British subject who on 25 January
1984 was on an electoral roll kept for the purposes of a House of
Representatives election);".
  (2) The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting
paragraph (1) (d) in Form 26A and substituting the following paragraph:
  "(d)  that I am an Australian citizen; and".


- NOTES


1983 No. 313*1* ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT)



*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 December 1983.
*2* Statutory Rules 1940 No. 163 as amended to date. For previous amendments
see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1983 No. 114 and see also Statutory Rules 1983
Nos. 114, 153, 176, 181, 235 and 274.