Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 27

27. After section 41 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Claims for provisional enrolment

''41A. (1) Any person who is 17 years of age and who, if he were 18 years of
age, would be entitled to have his name placed on a Roll for a Subdivision may
send or deliver a claim to have his name placed on the Roll for that
Subdivision to any Divisional Returning Officer.

''(2) A claim made under sub-section (1) shall be treated as a claim for
enrolment for the Subdivision to which the claim relates and the provisions of
sections 43, 46 and 46A apply in relation to the claim as if the person making
the claim were 18 years of age and the claim were made pursuant to section 
41. 

''(3) For the purposes of sections 216 and 216A, a claim made under
sub-section (1) shall be taken to be a claim for enrolment.''.