Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts [(1)-(2) deleted]
(3) Any person on
active service with His Majesty’s Naval or Military Forces, who, at the
commencement of such service, was enrolled or qualified for enrolment as a
Legislative Council electors a householder occupying a dwelling-house, shall
retain such qualification during such service, whether absent from the State
or not, so long as he continues tenant of such dwelling-house notwithstanding
that he does not occupy the dwelling-house in person.
Provided that if such
person is a married man and absent from the State, and his wife remains in
occupation of the dwelling-house she may, on application to the Electoral
Registrar, be registered as an elector on the household qualification in the
place of her husband.
(4) Whenever, in the
preparation of electoral rolls, the name of any person on service with His
Majesty’s Forces, and whose name was on an existing roll, has been
omitted on the ground that by reason of such service such person did not
appear to reside in the District for which he was enrolled, the name of such
person may be inserted by the Chief Electoral Officer.
(5) The Chief
Electoral Officer shall, so far as practicable, cause an asterisk or other
distinguishing mark to he made on the rolls against the names of electors who
have joined His Majesty’s Forces, and append to the roll an explanatory
note.
[Section 2 amended by No. 28 of 1943
s. 2.]