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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (ELECTORAL) REGULATIONS 2005
S.R. No. 98/2005
Version as at 14 March 2008
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation Page
PART 1-PRELIMINARY
1. Objective
2. Authorising provisions
3. Revocation
4. Definitions
PART 2-VOTERS' ROLLS
Division 1-Enrolment of voters
5. Request to vary owner enrolment
6. Enrolment application from property owner
7. Enrolment application from property occupier
8. Resignation of occupier enrolment
9. Withdrawal of owner consent
10. Appointment of corporation representative
11. Resignation of corporation representative
12. Revocation of corporation appointment
Division 2-Silent voters
13. Silent voter request
14. Silent voter record
15. Silent voter's details to be kept secure
16. Silent voter not required to provide address
Division 3-Form of voters' rolls
17. Exhibition roll and voters' roll
PART 3-GENERAL ELECTION MATTERS
Division 1-Authorised persons
18. Declaration by returning officer, authorised person or
interpreter
Division 2-Ballot-papers
19. Form of ballot-paper
20. Validity of ballot-paper
Division 3-Assistance for voters
21. Disadvantaged voters signing declarations
PART 4-CANDIDATES
Division 1-Candidates and scrutineers
22. Notice of candidature
23. Notice of withdrawal of candidature
24. Appointment of scrutineer
25. Declaration by scrutineer
Division 2-How-to-vote cards
26. Application of Division
27. Submission of how-to-vote card to returning officer
28. Details to be included in how-to-vote card submission
29. Registration or refusal of registration of how-to-vote card
30. Review of returning officer's decision
31. Provision of how-to-vote cards
Division 3-Candidate statements
32. Application and interpretation of Division
33. Candidate statements a prescribed document
34. Lodgement of candidate statements
35. Form of a candidate statement
36. Rejection and amendment of candidate statements
37. Candidates indication of preferences
38. Candidate information on the Internet
39. Publication of candidate information
40. Disclaimer on candidate statements
PART 5-VOTING IN ATTENDANCE ELECTIONS
Division 1-General provisions for attendance elections
41. Application of Part 42. Public notice of voting arrangements
43. Voter notice
Division 2-Pre-poll postal voting
44. Application for pre-poll postal vote
45. Consideration of application for pre-poll postal vote
46. Issue of pre-poll postal ballot-papers
47. General postal voters
48. Record of issue of pre-poll postal ballot-papers
49. Voter to complete pre-poll postal ballot material
Division 3-Voting centres
50. Appointment of voting centres
51. Hours of voting
52. Use of licensed premises as voting centre
53. Use of a school as voting centre
54. Adjournment of voting
55. Temporary suspension of voting
56. Scrutineers at voting centres
57. Person who can remain in a voting centre
Division 4-Voting at voting centres
58. Closing and sealing of ballot-boxes
59. Declaration ballot-boxes
60. How-to-vote cards at a mobile voting centre
61. Entitlement to vote at voting centres
62. Questions to be asked of a voter
63. Voter to receive ballot-paper
64. Method of voting
65. Spoilt ballot-paper
Division 5-Declaration voting at a voting centre
66. Unidentified voter
67. Declaration of voter identity
68. Unenrolled voter
69. Declaration of voter entitlement
70. Person who appears to have previously voted
71. Declaration that person has not previously voted
72. Voter previously issued with a pre-poll postal vote
73. Declaration that a pre-poll postal voter has not voted
74. Declaration vote
Division 6-Procedure at close of voting
75. Procedure at voting centre that is not a counting place
76. Procedure at a voting centre that is a designated counting
place
PART 6-VOTING IN POSTAL ELECTIONS
Division 1-General provisions for postal elections
77. Application of Part 78. Notice of election
79. Change to the last day of voting
80. Scrutineers
Division 2-Issue of postal ballot materials
81. Issue of postal ballot envelopes
82. Ballot-papers
83. Declaration envelopes
84. Voter not to receive postal vote
85. Amendment of voters' roll
86. Early Postal Vote
87. Request to redirect postal ballot envelope
88. Request by an unenrolled voter
89. Request for replacement voting materials
Division 3-Return of postal ballot materials
90. Return of declaration envelopes and ballot-papers
91. Receipt of declaration envelopes and ballot-papers
92. Procedure after the close of voting
PART 7-COUNTING OF VOTES
Division 1-General counting provisions
93. Place at which votes to be counted
94. Scrutineers at a counting place
95. Adjournment of count
Division 2-Preparation for counting in an attendance election
96. Application of Division
97. Acceptance of pre-poll declaration envelopes
98. Acceptance of declaration votes
99. Opening ballot-boxes and envelopes
100. Transfers between counting places
Division 3-Preparation for counting in a postal election
101. Application of Division
102. Unsigned declaration envelopes
103. Postal ballot envelopes issued to unenrolled voters
104. Replacement postal ballot envelopes
105. Opening declaration envelopes for a postal election
Division 4-Manual counting of votes
106. Procedure for manual counting of votes
107. Records of a manual count to be made available
Division 5-Electronic counting of votes
108. Electronic counting systems
109. Validation procedures
110. Procedures for electronic counting
111. Records of a computer count to be made available
Division 6-Safe custody of election materials
112. Record of electoral materials
113. Packaging of election records
114. Storage of election records
PART 8-ELECTION DONATIONS
115. Prescribed details
PART 9-ENFORCEMENT OF COMPULSORY VOTING
116. Exemptions from compulsory voting
117. Preparation of the list of non-voters
118. Prosecution officer to deal with persons on the list of
non-voters
119. Fine for failure to vote-infringement penalty
PART 10-MUNICIPAL ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL
120. Application for an inquiry into an election
121. Fee
PART 11-CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
122. Consequential amendments to the City of Melbourne
(Elections) Regulations 2001.
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SCHEDULE-Silent Voter Request Form
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ENDNOTES
1. General Information
2. Table of Amendments
3. Explanatory Details
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