NORTHERN TERRITORY ELECTORAL REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) 1981 NO. 82 

NORTHERN TERRITORY ELECTORAL REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) 1981 NO. 82 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Absent voters' ballot-papers-action taken by Assistant Returning Officer  
2. Preliminary Scrutiny  


1981 No. 82 NORTHERN TERRITORY ELECTORAL REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS)
- REG 1
Absent voters' ballot-papers-action taken by Assistant Returning Officer


  1. Regulation 97E of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is
amended-
  (a)  by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) "or by registered
post" and substituting ", registered post or courier service"; and
  (b)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

     "(4) In paragraph (2) (b), 'courier service' means a service approved by
the Chief Australian Electoral Officer 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.".


1981 No. 82 NORTHERN TERRITORY ELECTORAL REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS)
- REG 2
Preliminary Scrutiny


  2. Regulation 118B of the Northern Territory Electoral Regulations is
amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) all the words after "poll," and
substituting "the officer conducting the scrutiny certifies that the name of
the elector appears on the record forwarded to him by the Presiding Officer
under sub-regulation 97D (2)".


- NOTES


1981 No. 82*1* NORTHERN TERRITORY ELECTORAL REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENTS)



*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 May 1981.
*2* Statutory Rules 1947 No. 148 as amended to date. For previous amendments
see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1981 No. 81 and see also Statutory Rules 1981
No. 81.