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New South Wales Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Bill 2010 Contents Page 1 Name of Act 2 2 Commencement 2 Schedule 1 Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41 relating to investigation of internet voting for vision-impaired and other disabled persons 3 Schedule 2 Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41 relating to authorisation and registration of electoral material 4 Schedule 3 Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41 relating to registration of political parties 5 Schedule 4 Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment (Automatic Enrolment) Act 2009 No 102 7 b2010-025-42.d12 New South Wales Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Bill 2010 No , 2010 A Bill for An Act to amend the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 to make provision for the investigation of internet voting for vision-impaired persons and other disabled persons; make further provision regarding the conduct of elections and the registration of political parties; and for other purposes. Clause 1 Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Bill 2010 The Legislature of New South Wales enacts: 1 1 Name of Act 2 This Act is the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment 3 Act 2010. 4 2 Commencement 5 This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act. 6 Page 2 Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Bill 2010 Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41 Schedule 1 relating to investigation of internet voting for vision-impaired and other disabled persons Schedule 1 Amendment of Parliamentary 1 Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41 2 relating to investigation of internet 3 voting for vision-impaired and other 4 disabled persons 5 Section 187 6 Insert after section 186A: 7 187 Investigation of internet voting for vision-impaired and other 8 disabled persons 9 (1) The Electoral Commissioner is: 10 (a) to conduct an investigation into the feasibility of providing 11 internet voting for vision-impaired and other disabled 12 persons for elections under this Act, and 13 (b) if such internet voting is feasible, to propose a detailed 14 model of such internet voting for adoption. 15 (2) The investigation is to be undertaken as soon as possible after the 16 commencement of this section. 17 (3) A report on the investigation, and any proposed model of internet 18 voting for vision-impaired and other disabled persons, is to be 19 given to the Minister within 3 months after the commencement of 20 this section. 21 (4) The Minister is, as soon as practicable, to table, or cause to be 22 tabled, a copy of the report in each House of Parliament. 23 (5) The Electoral Commissioner is not required under this Act or any 24 other law to provide any special or alternative form of voting for 25 vision-impaired or other disabled persons, other than that already 26 provided for under this Act. In particular, the Electoral 27 Commissioner is not required under this Act or any other law to 28 provide a form of voting to vision-impaired or other disabled 29 persons that enables such persons to vote without the assistance 30 of another person. 31 Page 3 Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Bill 2010 Schedule 2 Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41 relating to authorisation and registration of electoral material Schedule 2 Amendment of Parliamentary 1 Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41 2 relating to authorisation and registration 3 of electoral material 4 [1] Section 151E Name and address of author and printer to be printed on 5 advertisements etc 6 Insert after section 151E (2): 7 (3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to: 8 (a) a T-shirt, lapel button, lapel badge, pen, pencil or balloon, 9 or 10 (b) a business or visiting card that promotes the candidacy of 11 any person in an election, or 12 (c) a letter or other card: 13 (i) that bears the name and address of the sender, and 14 (ii) that does not contain a representation or purported 15 representation of a ballot paper for use in an 16 election, or 17 (d) any other article prescribed (or of a class prescribed) by the 18 regulations. 19 [2] Section 151G Registration of electoral material 20 Insert after section 151G (7A) (a): 21 (a1) that the material does not clearly identify the person, 22 political party, organisation or group on whose behalf the 23 material is to be distributed, or 24 Page 4 Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Bill 2010 Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41 Schedule 3 relating to registration of political parties Schedule 3 Amendment of Parliamentary 1 Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41 2 relating to registration of political parties 3 [1] Section 66G Refusal to register 4 Insert after section 66G (4): 5 (5) Despite subsection (3), if a party is registered under the 6 Commonwealth Act (the Commonwealth registered party), the 7 Electoral Commissioner must not refuse to register under this 8 Act: 9 (a) the Commonwealth registered party, or 10 (b) another party (if the Commonwealth registered party has 11 given its consent in writing to the registration), 12 under the same name or same abbreviation (or both) as the 13 Commonwealth registered party is registered under the 14 Commonwealth Act by reason only of a ground set out in the 15 following: 16 (c) subsection (3) (b), 17 (d) subsection (3) (c) or (d), unless the registered party or 18 party currently represented in Parliament referred to in 19 subsection (3) (c) or (d) is not registered under the 20 Commonwealth Act. 21 [2] Section 66H Amendment of Register 22 Omit "the application is to be regarded as an application for registration setting 23 out particulars as proposed to be amended" from section 66H (3). 24 Insert instead "a reference in those provisions to an application for registration 25 is taken to be a reference to an application for an amendment of the Register 26 of Parties". 27 [3] Section 66H (3AA) 28 Insert after section 66H (3): 29 (3AA) Section 66D (2) (g) and (g1) do not apply to an application for the 30 amendment of the particulars in the Register of Parties. 31 [4] Section 66H (3C)-(3E) 32 Insert after section 66H (3B): 33 (3C) Section 66FA does not apply to an application for the amendment 34 of the particulars in the Register of Parties. 35 Page 5 Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Bill 2010 Schedule 3 Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 No 41 relating to registration of political parties (3D) An amendment of the particulars in the Register of Parties under 1 this Part must not be made in the period commencing on the day 2 of the issue of the writ for an election and ending on and 3 including the day fixed for the return of the writ. 4 (3E) No action is to be taken during that period in relation to an 5 application for an amendment of the particulars in the Register of 6 Parties. 7 Page 6 Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Bill 2010 Amendment of Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment Schedule 4 (Automatic Enrolment) Act 2009 No 102 Schedule 4 Amendment of Parliamentary 1 Electorates and Elections Amendment 2 (Automatic Enrolment) Act 2009 No 102 3 Schedule 5 Miscellaneous amendments to Parliamentary Electorates 4 and Elections Act 1912 No 41 5 Insert after proposed section 138 (2) in Schedule 5 [62]: 6 (2A) In subsection (2), a reference to a polling place includes a 7 reference to a pre-poll voting place. 8 Page 7
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