Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject
to subsections (3) and (5), the Electoral Commissioner shall at the
request of the person or organisation in question cause to be provided,
without charge —
(a) to
any parliamentary party — 2 copies of the latest print of the
rolls for each district and region and the prescribed information relating to
each elector;
(b) to a
member of the Council — 2 copies of the latest print of the
roll for each district in the region for which the member was elected and the
prescribed information relating to each elector for each district in the
region;
(c) to a
member of the Assembly — 2 copies of the latest print of the
roll for the district for which the member was elected and the prescribed
information relating to each elector for the district.
(1a) In
subsection (1) —
prescribed information relating to an elector
means —
(a) the
elector’s postal address; and
(b)
details of when the particulars on the roll relating to the elector were
entered or most recently changed; and
(c) the
local government district in which, and if that district is divided into wards
the ward in which, the elector’s residence is situated; and
(d) the
elector’s date of birth.
(2) Subject to
subsection (3), the Electoral Commissioner shall, so far as it is
practicable to do so, cause to be provided to each parliamentary party,
without charge, at the request of the party once during each Parliament, 2
copies of a habitation index for each district, being a list of electors for
that district arranged, in a manner determined by the Electoral Commissioner,
by reference to the residences of the electors whose names are entered on the
roll for that district.
(3) The Electoral
Commissioner shall not provide a parliamentary party with —
(a)
copies of a print of the roll for a district under subsection (1); or
(b)
copies of a habitation index in respect of a district under
subsection (2),
unless a branch or
division of the party is organised in that district or in the region of which
that district forms part.
(4) If by virtue of
section 51B information is not shown on a roll, that information is not
to be provided under this section.
(5) Without limiting
subsection (1) or (2), the Electoral Commissioner may comply with a
requirement of this section by providing the required enrolment information in
the form of particulars recorded or stored on a mechanical, electrical, or
other device.
(6) In this
section —
parliamentary party has the meaning given by
section 62C.
[Section 25A inserted by No. 79 of 1987
s. 7; amended by No. 36 of 2000 s. 64; No. 64 of 2006
s. 21; No. 7 of 2009 s. 8.]