Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 17

17. After section 33 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
New Rolls to be prepared upon creation of new Divisions, Subdivisions, &c.



''33A. (1) Where-

   (a)  a Division is divided into Subdivisions;

   (b)  a new Division or a new Subdivision is created; or

   (c)  the boundaries of an existing Division or of an existing Subdivision
        are altered,
new Rolls shall be prepared in respect of each Division or Subdivision created
or otherwise affected by reason of the circumstance referred to in paragraph
(a), (b) or (c) by making any necessary transfer of electors between Rolls for
existing Divisions or Subdivisions or between Rolls for existing Divisions or
Subdivisions and Rolls for new Divisions or Subdivisions.

''(2) A transfer of electors for the purposes of sub-section (1) between one
Roll and another Roll shall be effected by removing the names and other
particulars of the electors from the Roll on which the names of those electors
are presently entered and entering the names and other particulars of those
electors on the Roll to which those electors are to be transferred.

''(3) Where, for the purposes of sub-section (1), electors are transferred
between Rolls-

   (a)  in a case where, in the opinion of the relevant officer, a reasonably
        effective notification of that transfer can be given by notice
        published in a newspaper-the relevant officer shall cause notice of
        that transfer to be so published in that newspaper; and

   (b)  in a case to which paragraph (a) does not apply-the relevant officer
        shall cause notice of that transfer to be given to each elector who
        has been so transferred.

''(4) In sub-section (3), 'relevant officer', in relation to an elector
transferred for the purposes of sub-section (1), means-

   (a)  where the transfer is a transfer between Rolls for Divisions or
        Subdivisions in a State-the Australian Electoral Officer for that
        State; and

   (b)  where the transfer is a transfer between Rolls for Divisions or
        Subdivisions in a Territory-the Electoral Commissioner.''.