Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where a person considers that having his or her address shown on the Roll for a Subdivision would place the personal safety of the person or of members of the person's family at risk, he or she may lodge with the claim for enrolment (including a provisional claim for enrolment) or transfer of enrolment a request, in the approved form, that his or her address not be entered on the Roll for the Subdivision for which enrolment is claimed.
(2) Where:
(a) the address of a person is included in the particulars relating to the person that are entered on the Roll for a Subdivision; and
(b) the person considers that having his or her address so shown places the personal safety of the person or of members of his or her family at risk;
the person may lodge with the DRO keeping the Roll for the Subdivision a request, in the approved form, that his or her address be deleted from the particulars that are entered on that Roll.
(3) A request under subsection (1) or (2) shall give particulars of the relevant risk and shall be verified by statutory declaration by the person making the request or some other person.
(4) Where:
(a) a request has been made under subsection (1) or (2); and
(b) the DRO for the Division that includes the Subdivision on the Roll for which the person making the request is to be or has been enrolled, as the case may be, is satisfied that having the address of the person making the request shown on the Roll for the Subdivision would place or places the personal safety of the person or members of the person's family at risk;
the DRO:
(c) in a case where the request was lodged under subsection (1)--shall not include the address of the person in the particulars relating to the person that are entered on the Roll for the Subdivision; and
(d) in a case where the request is lodged under subsection (2)--shall delete the address of the person from the particulars relating to the person that are entered on the Roll for the Subdivision.
(5) Where a DRO grants or refuses a request made by a person under subsection (1) or (2), the DRO shall notify the person in writing of the decision.
(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 107, where an address is deleted from a Roll in pursuance of subsection (4), the address so deleted shall be obliterated.
(7) A DRO for a Division shall, when directed to do so by the Electoral Commission, conduct a review of the Roll for a Subdivision of that Division in relation to electors whose addresses are not shown on the Roll by virtue of this section.
(8) If, after such a review, the DRO is not satisfied that the personal safety of a elector whose address is not shown on the Roll, or of the elector's family, would be at risk if the elector's address were shown on the Roll, the DRO must notify the elector in writing that the DRO has decided that the elector's address should be entered on the Roll.
(9) If:
(a) the decision that the elector's address should be entered on the Roll has not been set aside under subsection 120(3), or by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal or a court; and
(b) it is no longer possible for the decision to be so set aside;
the DRO must enter the elector's address on the Roll.
(10) For the purposes of this Act, if the address of a person is not shown on the Roll for a Subdivision because of a request made by the person under subsection (1) or (2), the name of the person is taken to have been placed on the Roll:
(a) if the person has not given notice of a change of address under subsection 101(5)--in respect of the address that would have been shown on the Roll had the request not been made; or
(b) if the person gives notice of a change of address under subsection 101(5)--in respect of the new address.
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