Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ELECTION OF SENATORS ACT 1903 - SECT 3

3 .         Limits within which dates may be fixed

        (1)         The date fixed for the close of the rolls shall be the third working day after the date of the writ.

        Note:         The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 provides that names cannot be added to or removed from the rolls after the date of the writ except in very limited circumstances.

        (1a)         In subsection (1) —

        “working day” has the meaning given in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 section 155(2).

        (2)         Subject to subsection (3) the date fixed for the nomination of the candidates shall not be less than 10 nor more than 27 days after the date of the writ.

        (3)         Where a candidate for an election dies, after being nominated and before 12 o’clock noon on the day fixed by the writ as the date of nomination for the election, the day fixed as the day of nomination for the election shall, except for the purposes of subsection (4), be taken to be the day next succeeding the day so fixed.

        (4)         The date fixed for the polling shall not be less than 23 days nor more than 31 days after the date of nomination.

        (5)         The day fixed for the polling shall be a Saturday.

        (6)         The date fixed for the return of the writ shall not be more than 100 days after the date of the writ.

        [Section 3 inserted by No. 86 of 1984 s. 4; amended by No. 6 of 1989 s. 4; No. 16 of 2001 s. 4; No. 20 of 2007 s. 4.]