Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In addition to the
other powers of alteration conferred by this Act, rolls may be altered by the
Electoral Commissioner or by an enrolment officer as follows:
(a) By
correcting any obvious mistake or omission, but not to the extent of wholly
removing a name from the roll except where a name is repeated.
(aa) By
altering the particulars of the enrolment of an elector so as to record any
change therein resulting from —
(i)
the numbering or renumbering of a street or locality;
(ii)
the naming or renaming of a street or locality; or
(iii)
any other like circumstance.
(b) By
removing the name of any person who requests in writing that his name may be
removed from the roll.
(c) By
changing, upon the written application of an elector, the original name or
address of the elector to an altered name or address.
(d) For
the purposes of giving effect to a nomination made under section 61.
(e) By
removing the names of persons reported as being —
(i)
dead;
(ii)
disqualified by section 18;
(iii)
already enrolled in another district or whose names are
repeated on the same roll.
(f) By
re-instating any name struck off by mistake under the last preceding
paragraph.
(g) By
changing the address of an elector from that appearing on the claim, to the
address inserted by the electoral canvasser on the roll revised by him after
an electoral canvass or census taken by order of the Governor, if the new
address is within the boundaries of the same district.
[(2) deleted]
[Section 52 amended by No. 44 of 1911
s. 18 and 43; No. 63 of 1948 s. 11; No. 68 of 1964
s. 11; No. 28 of 1970 s. 7; No. 39 of 1979 s. 10;
No. 40 of 1987 s. 36 and 84; No. 79 of 1987 s. 13;
No. 36 of 2000 s. 28(3).]