ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) 1981 NO. 80 

ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) 1981 NO. 80 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Interpretation  
2. Postal ballot-paper received by Divisional Returning Officer or Assistant Returning Officer  
3. Postal ballot-paper taken from ballot-box-action by Assistant Returning Officer  
4. Absent voters' ballot-papers-action by Assistant Returning Officer  
5. Preliminary scrutiny  
6. Action by Assistant Returning Officer  


1981 No. 80 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS)
- REG 1
Interpretation


  1. Regulation 5 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by
inserting before the definition of "referendum" in sub-regulation (1) the
following definition:
  " 'courier service' means a service that provides for the collection, at the
request of a person using the service, of an article from a place in Australia
specified by or on behalf of the person and the conveyance (whether by
aircraft or otherwise) and delivery of the article to another place in
Australia that is so specified, being a service approved by the Australian
Electoral Officer for a State;".


1981 No. 80 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS)
- REG 2
Postal ballot-paper received by Divisional Returning Officer or Assistant
Returning Officer


  2. Regulation 45 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by
omitting from paragraph (iii) of sub-regulation (1) "or registered post" and
substituting ", registered post or courier service".


1981 No. 80 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS)
- REG 3
Postal ballot-paper taken from ballot-box-action by Assistant Returning
Officer


  3. Regulation 47 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by
omitting from paragraph (c) "or registered post" and substituting ",
registered post or courier service".


1981 No. 80 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS)
- REG 4
Absent voters' ballot-papers-action by Assistant Returning Officer


  4. Regulation 56 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by
omitting from paragraph (b) "or registered post" and substituting ",
registered post or courier service".


1981 No. 80 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS)
- REG 5
Preliminary scrutiny


  5. Regulation 59 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by
omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1) all the words after "poll"
and substituting "the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division in which
the declaration was made certifies that the name of the elector appears on a
record of absent voters made under regulation 55".


1981 No. 80 ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS)
- REG 6
Action by Assistant Returning Officer


  6. Regulation 70 of the Electoral and Referendum Regulations is amended by
omitting from paragraph (b) "or registered post" and substituting ",
registered post or courier service".


- NOTES


1981 No. 80*1* ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENTS)



*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 May 1981.
*2* Statutory Rules 1940 No. 163 as amended by Statutory Rules 1949 No. 62;
1954 No. 27; 1961 No. 103; 1966 No. 140; 1973 No. 62; 1974 No. 44; 1980 No.
241.