Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Governor may
arrange with the Governor General of the Commonwealth for the Australian
Electoral Officer to perform all or any of the following
functions —
(a) the
receipt and initial checking of claims for enrolment under this Act (including
claims under section 45(2)) and the undertaking of enquiries in respect
thereof; and
(b) the
transmission to the Electoral Commissioner of the information necessary for
the preparation, alteration, and revision of rolls under this Act.
(2) An arrangement
entered into under subsection (1) may provide that —
(a) the
Australian Electoral Officer shall be the officer to whom a claimant shall
send any claim under this Act, but that a claim may be sent, or in specified
circumstances or cases may be sent, to a Divisional Returning Officer or an
Assistant Divisional Returning Officer (within the meaning of those terms in
the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 ) acting on behalf of the Australian
Electoral Officer;
(b) the
Australian Electoral Officer shall have the powers, functions and duties
conferred or imposed on the Electoral Commissioner or an enrolment officer by
sections 42(c), 44(2) and (3), 44A(3) and (5), and 45(4); and
(c) a
claim shall be in a form provided by the Electoral Commissioner and the
Australian Electoral Officer for putting into effect a single enrolment
procedure for the purpose of Commonwealth and State elections,
but shall not make
provision for the removal of the name of a person from the roll otherwise than
pursuant to a provision of this Act.
(3) Where an
arrangement is entered into under subsection (1) the Governor may by
order, which shall be published in the Gazette , declare that a single
enrolment procedure is in operation for the purpose of enrolment for
Commonwealth and State elections as from such date as is specified in the
order.
(4) An order under
subsection (3) —
(a)
shall be accompanied by an explanatory note indicating briefly to intending
claimants the requirements of the single enrolment procedure so far as it
affects the making of a claim under this Act;
(b) may
contain such incidental or transitional provisions as the Governor considers
necessary to give effect to this section;
(c) may
be revoked by the Governor by further order published in the Gazette .
(5) An order under
subsection (3), and the arrangement to which it relates shall have effect
notwithstanding anything in this Act.
(6) In this
section and in sections 31A and 31B Australian Electoral Officer
means the Australian Electoral Officer for this State provided for by
section 20 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 of the
Commonwealth Parliament or any provision amending, or in substitution for,
that section.
[Section 31 inserted by No. 9 of 1983
s. 5; amended by No. 76 of 1984 s. 4; No. 40 of 1987
s. 84; No. 36 of 2000 s. 28(1) and 29.]