Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 42

42 .         Claims

                A claim — 

            (a)         may be in the prescribed form;

            (b)         shall be signed by the claimant in the presence of an elector, or a person qualified to be enrolled as an elector, of the Commonwealth Parliament or of the Assembly who shall sign his name as witness in his own handwriting; and

            (c)         is to be sent to the Electoral Commissioner who shall cause the claim, and any request lodged with it under section 51B(1), to be referred to and recorded by an enrolment officer (in this Division and section 47 called the enrolment officer ).

        [Section 42 inserted by No. 9 of 1983 s. 6; amended by No. 36 of 2000 s. 28(1).]

[ 42A.         Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e).]

[ 43.         Deleted by No. 9 of 1983 s. 8.]