Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electoral Boundaries Commission Act 1982 - SECT 10B

Submissions, suggestions and objections

10B. Submissions, suggestions and objections









(1) Suggestions or objections in writing concerning a proposed electoral
region or proposed electoral district may be lodged with the Commission not
later than 30 days after the advertisement in the Government Gazette referred
to in the last preceding section, and the Commission shall consider all
suggestions and objections so lodged.

(2) In considering suggestions or objections lodged under subsection (1), the
Commission may conduct hearings in public.

(3) A person who lodges a suggestion or objection under subsection (1) may
lodge a request with that suggestion or objection that the person be permitted
to make an oral submission to the Commission in support of the suggestion or
objection.

(4) If the Commission hears oral submissions, the Commission must hear them in
public and cause them to be recorded and a transcript to be made.

(5) A suggestion or objection lodged under subsection (1) or a transcript of
an oral submission made under subsection (4) is a public document which must
be available for inspection at the office of the Commission at all times
during its normal office hours until the expiration of 3 months after the
statement referred to in section 11 is first laid before Parliament.