Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1983 No. 155 NORTHERN TERRITORY ELECTORAL REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 5

5. (1) The First Schedule to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting
Forms 14 and 15 and substituting the following form:
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FORM 14 Regulation 47
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
The Northern Territory Electoral Regulations
NOTICE OF OBJECTION TO (full name and address)
As part of the procedure for ensuring the accuracy of the electoral rolls, the
Australian Electoral Office recently conducted a door-to-door check of
enrolment in the        District of the Northern Territory. As a result of
that check, I have received information that you may not now be living at the
address shown next to your name on the electoral roll and may not have lived
there during the last month. On the basis of that information, an objection
has been made to your name being on the Electoral Roll for that District on
the ground that you do not live in the District and have not so lived for at
least one month last past. As a consequence, I am required by law to give you
notice of that objection.

   (or)
I have received information that you may not now be living at the address
shown next to your name on the Electoral Roll for the        District of the
Northern Territory and may not have lived there during the last month. On the
basis of that information an objection has been made to your name being on the
Electoral Roll for that District on the ground that you do not live in the
District and have not so lived for at least one month last past. As a
consequence, I am required by law to give you notice of that objection.

   (or)
  I have made*   an objection to your name being on the Electoral Roll for the
District of the received* Northern Territory on the ground that (here insert
ground of objection being a ground other than non-residence). (Include one
only of the preceding paragraphs, as applicable)   If you do still live in the
District of the Northern Territory (and this includes temporarily living
elsewhere but having a fixed intention to return to the address shown next to
your name on the Electoral Roll) you should let me know that the objection is
not good. You have 20 days after the posting of this notice to do this and you
may do so by attending before me at my office at and making an appropriate
oral statement; alternatively, you may post or deliver to me a written
statement showing that the objection is not good. In either case you should
let me know within 20 days after the posting of this notice.

(Include the preceding paragraph where the ground of the objection is
non-residence) You may answer the objection-
  (a)  orally, by attending before me at my office at        and making an
oral statement to show that the objection is not good; or

   (b)  in writing, by sending by post or delivering to me at that office a
        statement in writing to show that the objection is not good, but in
        either case, I should receive your answer within 20 days after the
        posting of this notice.

(Include the preceding paragraph where the ground of objection is other than
non-residence)
If you answer the objection within 20 days after the posting of this notice I
shall determine this objection immediately upon receiving your answer and I
shall advise you of my decision. If I do not receive a reply within that
period, I shall determine the objection and your name may be removed from the
Roll.

It is important that the electoral rolls are accurate. It is also important
that names of electors are not taken off the roll in error. The objection
procedure helps to achieve these ends.

Returning officer for the Northern Territory Date of posting of this notice:

*Strike out whichever is inapplicable.

(2) The First Schedule to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting
Forms 28 and 29 and substituting the following forms:
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FORM 28 Sub-regulation 99 (2) COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
Northern Territory Electoral Regulations
NOTICE TO ELECTOR WHO APPEARS TO HAVE FAILED TO VOTE TO (full name and address
of elector)
From my records it appears that you have failed to vote at the election held
on Saturday           . In accordance with section 128A of the Commonwealth
Electoral Act 1918 in its application in the Northern Territory you are called
upon to give a valid, truthful and sufficient reason why you failed so to
vote. Voting is compulsory.

You are required by law to give, in the manner stated below, the true reason
why you failed so to vote. Will you, please-

   (a)  fill up the form at the foot of this notice, stating in it that
        reason;

   (b)  sign the form in the presence of a witness; and

   (c)  post the form in time for it to reach me on or before
If you do not fill the form up, sign it and post it in the manner stated
above, or if I decide that the reason you have given for failing to vote is
not valid and sufficient, you may be required to pay a fine.

Returning Officer for the Northern Territory
Note: If, by reason that the elector named in this notice is absent or is
suffering from any physical incapacity, the elector is unable to fill up, sign
and post the form at the foot of this notice within the time specified above,
another elector who has personal knowledge of the facts may fill up, sign, and
post the form, duly witnessed, within that time. Where such action is taken by
another elector, the elector named in the notice may be treated as having
complied with the provisions of the law referred to in this notice.

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FORM 29 Sub-regulation 99 (3) FORM OF STATEMENT TO BE COMPLETED AND RETURNED
TO THE RETURNING OFFICER FOR THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
I,                        of                    state that the following is
the true reason why I* failed to vote at the election held on Saturday :
Signature of person making statement The above statement was signed in my
presence.

Signature of witness Occupation Address Date

*Where the form is filled up on behalf of an elector who is absent or
suffering from a physical incapacity, the word "I" should be struck out and
the name of that elector inserted.