Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts The Governor may by
regulations, either general or applicable to any particular roll, specify the
method of preparation and prescribe the rules to be observed in regard
thereto.
Any such regulations
may provide that any person entitled to enrolment as an elector for the
Council or the Assembly shall fill in, sign, and send to the officer indicated
therein a claim for enrolment in accordance with this Act, and otherwise
comply with the relative provisions of this Act:
Provided that any
elector who has been enrolled in pursuance of any claim signed by him and is
correctly enrolled shall not be required to sign and send in any further claim
for enrolment in connection with the preparation of a new roll unless he has
changed his place of living.
The regulations may
prescribe anything necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying a
system of compulsory enrolment into effect and in particular prescribing the
procedure in relation to the imposition and recovery of penalties by the
Electoral Commissioner for offences against the compulsory enrolment
provisions of this Act, and may prescribe a penalty not exceeding $20 for the
contravention of any regulation.
[Section 38 inserted by No. 59 of 1919
s. 2; amended by No. 33 of 1964 s. 14; No. 68 of 1964
s. 7; No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 76 of 1984 s. 7;
No. 40 of 1987 s. 84.]