Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In preparing new
rolls —
(a) the
names of all persons who appear to be qualified shall be inserted; and
(b) the
names of all persons —
(i)
who, from information supplied by the Registrar of
Births, Deaths and Marriages, appear to be dead, or who, from information
supplied by the Chief Psychiatrist referred to in section 8 of the
Mental Health Act 1996 , and the chief executive officer, within the
meaning of that expression as defined in section 3 of the
Prisons Act 1981 , appear to be disqualified; or
(ii)
who appear to be otherwise disqualified; or
(iii)
who do not appear to reside in the district for which
they are enrolled,
shall be omitted.
(1a)
Subsection (1)(b)(iii) does not apply to a person whose name is on the
existing roll because of section 17(4) or 17A.
(2)
The enrolment officer preparing a roll for a district shall forthwith give
notice to any person whose name is omitted, if such name appears on an
existing roll for the same district.
(3) If the person to
whom such notice is given makes and sends in a claim to be enrolled, and such
claim appears to the enrolment officer to be in order, he shall enrol the
claimant.
(4) If
the enrolment officer rejects such claim, he shall forthwith give notice
thereof to the claimant, and the claimant may, within the prescribed time,
appeal from the rejection of his claim to the Electoral Commissioner, and
the provisions of Division (4) shall apply.
[Section 40 amended by No. 33 of 1964
s. 15; No. 33 of 1967 s. 4; No. 40 of 1987 s. 30 and
84; No. 69 of 1996 s. 24; No. 40 of 1998 s. 11(a);
No. 36 of 2000 s. 28(1) and (2) and 82; No. 64 of 2006
s. 23.]