Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS 1940

- made under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART I--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Regulations [see Note 1]  
   3.      Repeal  
   5.      Interpretation  
   5A.     Prescribed authorities  

   PART II--ELECTORAL

           Division 1--Enrolment

   6.      Arrangements with States -- form of Roll  
   7.      Information on Rolls and certified lists of voters to be provided to particular people and organisations  
   8.      Permitted purposes for use of information: prescribed authorities  
   8A.     Permitted purposes for use of information: Australian Red Cross Blood Service  
   9.      Permitted purposes for use of information: other persons or organisations  
   13.     Provisional enrolment by applicant for citizenship -- prescribed electors  
   13A.    Enrolment-related claims or notices do not have to be signed in certain circumstances  

   PART III--ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM

           Division 1--Conduct of Elections and Referendums

   40.     State referendum or vote (Act, s 394)  

           Division 2--Electronically assisted voting for sight-impaired people

   41.     Definitions for Division 2  
   42.     Electronically assisted voting  
   43.     Electoral Commissioner to determine availability of electronically assisted voting  
   44.     Who is entitled to an electronically assisted vote  
   45.     Questions to be put to voter  
   46.     Duty of officer to assist voter  
   47.     Electronically assisted voting to take form of telephone assisted voting  
   48.     Telephone assisted voting -- home Divisional Office  
   49.     Telephone assisted voting -- outside home Divisional Office  
   50.     Requirements relating to ballot boxes  
   51.     Role of scrutineers -- national call centre  
   52.     Record of electronically assisted votes  
   52A.    What must be done with the voter's ballot papers  
   52B.    Scrutiny of ballot papers  
   53.     Persons present when electronically assisted vote is cast (subsection 202AB (4) of the Act and subsection 73M (5) of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act)  
   54.     Offences related to electronically assisted voting  
   57.     Protection of electronic voting hardware or software  

           Division 7--Enforcement of law in relation to compulsory voting

   81.     Proceedings in Court on failure of elector to vote  
   83.     Evidence in Court of summary jurisdiction  
           SCHEDULE 1 Prescribed authorities and permitted purposes for use of information
           SCHEDULE 2 Prescribed electors