Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 129

129. Section 183 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following sub-sections:

''(3) The choice of a person to hold the place of a Senator for the Australian
Capital Territory by the members of the Senate and the House of
Representatives sitting and voting together at a joint sitting of the members
convened by the Governor-General or the appointment of a person to hold the
place of such a Senator by the Governor-General under sub-section 21 (1) shall
be deemed to be an election within the meaning of this section, and the
provisions of this Division shall, so far as applicable, have effect as if
that choice or appointment were an election within the meaning of this
Division.

''(4) The choice of a person to hold the place of a Senator for the Northern
Territory by the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or the
appointment of a person to hold the place of a Senator by the Administrator of
the Northern Territory under sub-section 21 (2) shall be deemed to be an
election within the meaning of this section, and the provisions of this
Division shall, so far as applicable, have effect as if that choice or
appointment were an election within the meaning of this Division.''.