ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1987 NO. 118 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1987 NO. 118 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Principal Regulations 2. 3. Repeal of regulations 47, 48, 69 and 70 4. Scrutiny by Assistant Returning Officer 5. Repeal of regulation 75 6. Schedule 1987 No. 118 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 1 Principal Regulations 1. In these Regulations, "Principal Regulations" means the Electoral and Referendum Regulations. 1987 No. 118 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 2 2. Regulation 45 of the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted: Receipt and forwarding of certain postal votes "45. (1) When, before the close of the poll, in an election or a referendum, a Divisional Returning Officer receives an envelope bearing a postal vote certificate and purporting to contain a postal ballot-paper issued in respect of a Division other than the Division for which he or she acts as Divisional Returning Officer, which envelope has been posted or delivered to the Divisional Returning Officer under subsection 194 (3) or (4) of the Act or subsection 66 (3) or (4) of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act, the Divisional Returning Officer shall immediately: (a) endorse on the envelope "Received by me" and add the date of receipt, his or her signature and "Divisional Returning Officer"; (b) make a record of the name of the voter and the name of the Division appearing in the postal vote certificate; (c) place the envelope in a ballot box kept by the Divisional Returning Officer under paragraph 228 (3) (b) of the Act; and (d) at the close of the poll, deal with the envelope in accordance with subsection 228 (4) of the Act. "(2) When, before the close of the poll, in an election or a referendum, an Assistant Returning Officer (other than an Assistant Returning Officer at a place outside Australia) receives an envelope bearing a postal vote certificate and purporting to contain a postal ballot-paper, which envelope has been posted or delivered to the Assistant Returning Officer under subsection 194 (3) or (4) of the Act or subsection 66 (3) or (4) of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act, the Assistant Returning Officer shall immediately: (a) endorse on the envelope "Received by me" and add the date of receipt, his or her signature and "Assistant Returning Officer"; (b) make a record of the name of the voter and the name of the Division appearing in the postal vote certificate; (c) place the envelope in a ballot box; and (d) at the close of the poll, open the ballot box, place the envelope in a parcel prepared under paragraph 228 (2) (b) of the Act and otherwise deal with the envelope in accordance with section 228 of the Act. "(3) When, before the close of the poll, in an election or a referendum, an Assistant Returning Officer at a place outside Australia receives an envelope bearing a postal vote certificate and purporting to contain a postal ballot-paper which envelope has been posted or delivered to the Assistant Returning Officer under subsection 194 (3) or (4) of the Act or subsection 66 (3) or (4) of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act, the Assistant Returning Officer shall immediately: (a) endorse on the envelope "Received by me" and add the date of receipt, his or her signature and "Assistant Returning Officer"; (b) make a record of the name of the voter and the name of the Division appearing in the postal vote certificate; and (c) forward the envelope to such person as is specified in the written direction given to that Assistant Returning Officer under subsection 228 (8).". 1987 No. 118 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 3 Repeal of regulations 47, 48, 69 and 70 3. Regulations 47, 48, 69 and 70 of the Principal Regulations are repealed. 1987 No. 118 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 4 Scrutiny by Assistant Returning Officer 4. Regulation 73 of the Principal Regulations is amended: (a) by omitting from subregulation (1) "(but not inspect the votes)" and ", and regulations 47 and 70,"; (b) by adding at the end of subregulation (1): "and then proceed with the scrutiny of the votes in accordance with the Act or the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act"; and (c) by omitting subregulations (2), (3) and (4). 1987 No. 118 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 5 Repeal of regulation 75 5. Regulation 75 of the Principal Regulations is repealed. 1987 No. 118 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 6 Schedule 6. The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is amended: (a) by omitting Form 27 and substituting the following form: FORM 27 FORM OMITTED and (b) by omitting Form 39. - NOTES 1987 No. 118*1* ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT) *1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 June 1987. *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.