New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 52

52 Correction of errors

(1) If any accidental or unavoidable impediment, misfeasance or omission has happened in the preparation or transmission or printing of any roll under this Part, the Governor may by order:

(a) take all such measures as may be necessary for removing the impediment or rectifying such misfeasance or omission, or

(b) declare any such roll to be valid despite the impediment, misfeasance or omission.

(2) Every such order must state specifically the nature of the impediment, misfeasance or omission and must be published in the Gazette.

(3) Nothing in this section prevents the Electoral Commissioner exercising any of the Electoral Commissioner’s functions under any other provision of this Act in relation to the preparation and maintenance of rolls.