Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT (NO. 2) 1997 (NO 91 OF 1997)

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1997.  
   2.      This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Electoral Act 1992.1  
   4.      Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following definition:“ ‘official error', in relation to a person voting or seeking to vote at an election, means the removal of the person's name under this Act from the roll for an electorate in which the person is otherwise entitled to vote unless the name was so removed before the roll closed for the purpose of the previous election;”.  
   5.      Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (1) (d) “, MLAs” after “political parties”.  
   6.      After section 9 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted in Division 1 of Part II:  
   7.      Section 49 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:  
   8.      Section 62 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “for the electorate to which the roll relates”.  
   9.      Section 65 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (5) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:  
   10.     (1) Section 70 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   11.     Section 80 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “6 p.m.” and substituting “8 p.m.”.  
   12.     Section 81 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   13.     Section 93 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (1) (b) “not qualified to be an elector or is” after “is”.  
   14.     Section 95 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   16.     Section 97 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:  
   17.     Section 98 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsections:  
   18.     Section 128 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection:  
   19.     Section 133 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (1) (a) and substituting the following paragraphs:  
   20.     Section 135 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (1) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:  
   21.     Section 136 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following Division heading and sections are substituted:  
   22.     Section 141 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting all the words after “voter” and substituting “declaration voting papers for the election”.  
   23.     Section 171 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   25.     Section 203 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsections:  
   26.     Section 204 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:  
   27.     Section 295 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) “car sticker,”.  
   28.     Schedule 3 to the Principal Act is amended—  
   29.     Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of clause 7 the following subclause:  
   30.     Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of clause 8 the following subclause:  
   31.     Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of clause 17 the following subclause:  
   32.     The Principal Act is further amended as set out in the Schedule.