COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 382 General provisions about enrolment - related claims etc.
COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 382
General provisions about enrolment - related claims etc."enrolment-related claim or notice" means a claim, application, notice, objection, request or other communication that is required or permitted to be sent to the Electoral Commissioner by any of the following:
(a) a provision of Part VII, VIII, IX or X;
(b) section 184A.
"sent to" includes given, made or delivered to, or lodged with.
Addresses to which enrolment - related claims or notices may be sent
(2) The Electoral Commissioner may, in writing, determine one or more addresses to which enrolment - related claims or notices may be sent.
(3) A determination under subsection (2) may specify different addresses for the purposes of different provisions or for use in different circumstances.
(4) To avoid doubt, an address determined under subsection (2) may be an electronic address.
(5) If a person sends an enrolment - related claim or notice to an address in accordance with a determination under subsection (2), the person is taken to have sent the enrolment - related claim or notice to the Electoral Commissioner.
Note: Requirements relating to the form, content etc. of the enrolment - related claim or notice must still be complied with (subject to subsections (7) and (8)).
(6) A determination under subsection (2) is not a legislative instrument.
Enrolment - related claims or notices do not have to be signed in certain circumstances
(7) Subject to subsection (8), if:
(a) an enrolment - related claim or notice is required to be signed by a person; and
(b) the person is already enrolled; and
(c) the person's name is still the same as the name under which he or she is enrolled;
the requirement that the claim or application be signed is (despite section 336) taken to be satisfied if the person instead satisfies the requirements prescribed by the regulations for the purpose of this subsection.
(8) Subsection (7) does not apply to:
(a) an enrolment - related claim or notice that is required or permitted to be sent to the Electoral Commissioner by a provision of Part IX or X; or
(b) any of the following requirements for a signature:
(ia) the requirement in subparagraph 98AA(2)(c)(ii);
(i) the requirement in subsection 98(3);
(ii) the requirement in subsection 99A(5);
(iii) the requirement in subsection 99B(3);
(iv) the requirement that a statutory declaration referred to in subsection 104(3) be signed;
(v) any other requirement for a signature that is prescribed by
the regulations for the purpose of this subparagraph.