Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 17B

17B .         Electors with no fixed address enrolled under Commonwealth Act

        (1)         If —

            (a)         a person fulfils the requirements of section 17(1)(a) and (b) but does not live in any particular district or sub-district in the State; and

            (b)         the person’s name appears on a roll maintained under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 in respect of an address in a Commonwealth subdivision in the State with which the person has established a connection under section 96 of that Act; and

            (c)         the Commonwealth roll referred to in paragraph (b) is annotated to indicate that the person is an itinerant elector under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 section 96,

                the person is to be enrolled on the roll for the district or sub-district in which the address referred to in paragraph (b) is situated.

        (2)         While the name of the person continues to be included on the Commonwealth roll referred to in subsection (1)(b) with the annotation referred to in subsection (1)(c), the person is entitled —

            (a)         to remain enrolled on the roll for the district or sub-district referred to in subsection (1); and

            (b)         to vote at —

                  (i)         any election in the region of which the district or sub-district forms part; and

                  (ii)         any election in the district or the district of which the sub-district forms part.

        [Section 17B inserted by No. 7 of 2009 s. 6.]