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ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES COMMISSION ACT 1982 - SECT 10 Submissions and reports

ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES COMMISSION ACT 1982 - SECT 10

Submissions and reports

    (1)     In the course of its deliberations the Commission shall invite submissions from the public and may obtain such reports and make such inspections as it thinks necessary and may call such persons having special knowledge before the Commission as it thinks necessary.

    (2)     A person shall be entitled to make submissions to the Commission in writing or, by leave of the Commission, orally.

    (3)     Where the Commission hears oral submissions the Commission shall hear them in public and cause them to be recorded and a transcript to be made thereof which shall be taken to be a public document as described in this section.

    (4)     Each submission made in response to such invitation shall be deemed to be a public document and the same or a copy thereof and a transcript or copy of a transcript of any oral submission shall be open for inspection at the office of the Commission at all times during its normal office hours until the expiration of three months after the statement, particulars and maps referred to in section 11 shall have first been laid before Parliament.

S. 10(5) amended by No. 10/2004 s. 15(Sch. 1 item 7).

    (5)     Every person who obstructs or endeavours to influence a member of the Commission in the performance of his duties or the exercise of his discretion under this Act otherwise than by way of a submission pursuant to subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding 50 penalty units.

S. 10(6) amended by No. 9894 s. 3.

    (6)     Any person convicted of any offence against subsection (5) shall be disqualified from being elected to or holding office as a member of the Parliament of Victoria during a period of three years after the date of such conviction.

S. 10A (Heading) inserted by No. 13/2022 s. 28(1).

S. 10A inserted by No. 9894 s. 4, amended by Nos 12/1989 s. 4(1)(Sch. 2 items 32.1, 32.2), 85/2004 s. 4, 2/2003 s. 45(7), 9/2020 s. 390(Sch. 1 item 31), 13/2022 s. 28(2)(3) (ILA s. 39B(1)).