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Western Australia
Election of Senators Amendment Bill 2007
CONTENTS
1. Short title 2
2. Commencement 2
3. The Act amended 2
4. Section 3 amended 2
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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Election of Senators Amendment Bill 2007
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Election of Senators Act 1903.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
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Election of Senators Amendment Bill 2007
s. 1
1. Short title
This is the Election of Senators Amendment Act 2007.
2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation as follows:
5 (a) sections 1 and 2 -- on the day on which this Act
receives the Royal Assent;
(b) the rest of the Act -- on the day after that day.
3. The Act amended
The amendments in this Act are to the Election of Senators
10 Act 1903*.
[* Reprint 2 as at 16 May 2003.]
4. Section 3 amended
Section 3(1) is repealed and the following subsections are
inserted instead --
15 "
(1) The date fixed for the close of the rolls shall be the
third working day after the date of the writ.
Note: The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 provides that names
cannot be added to or removed from the rolls after the date of
20 the writ except in very limited circumstances.
(1a) In subsection (1) --
"working day" has the meaning given in the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 section 155(2).
".
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