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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 4C Registered officer of political party

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 4C

Registered officer of political party

  (1)   Subject to subsection   (2), a reference in this Act to the registered officer of a registered political party is a reference to the person shown in the Register of Political Parties as the registered officer of the party.

Note:   A person must not be the registered officer or a deputy registered officer of more than one registered political party at a particular time (see subsection   126(2B)).

  (2)   A reference in Part   XIV or XVI to the registered officer of a registered political party includes a reference to a person for the time being nominated by the registered officer of a party as a deputy registered officer of the party for the purposes of this Act.

  (3)   A nomination under subsection   (2):

  (a)   must be in writing, signed by the registered officer and lodged with the Commission; and

  (b)   must specify the name and address of the person nominated and bear the signature of that person; and

  (ba)   must include a signed declaration by the person nominated that subsection   126(2B) is not contravened by lodging the nomination of the person as the deputy registered officer; and

  (c)   may be revoked at any time by the registered officer by written notice lodged with the Commission.

  (4)   A nomination of a person as a deputy registered officer under subsection   (2) is invalid if subsection   126(2B) is contravened by lodging the nomination of the person as the deputy registered officer.

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