Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 14

14. (1) Section 30 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (4)
and substituting the following sub-section:

''(4) All the Division Rolls for a State or a Territory shall together form
the Roll for that State or Territory, as the case requires.''.

(2) The Roll of the electors for each Division of the Australian Capital
Territory, as compiled under regulations made under the Australian Capital
Territory Representation (House of Representatives) Act 1973 and in existence
immediately before the date of commencement of this section shall be taken, on
and after that date, for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this
Act, to have been compiled under the Principal Act as amended by this Act as
the Roll of the electors for that Division.

(3) The Roll of the electors for the Northern Territory, and the Roll of the
electors for each District of the Territory, as compiled under regulations
made under the Northern Territory Representation Act 1922 and in existence
immediately before the date of commencement of this section, shall be taken,
on and after that date, for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by
this Act, to have been compiled under the Principal Act as amended by this Act
as the Roll of the electors for that Territory or as the Roll of the electors
for that District, as the case requires.