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South Australia
Electoral (Prisoner Voting) Amendment
Bill 2016
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Electoral
Act 1985
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Electoral
Act 1985
3Amendment of section 69—Entitlement to
vote
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Prisoner Voting) Amendment
Act 2016.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Electoral
Act 1985
3—Amendment
of section 69—Entitlement to vote
(1) Section 69—after subsection (2) insert:
(3) A person who is
in custody serving a sentence of imprisonment of 3 years or longer for an
offence against the law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory is not
entitled to vote at an election.
(3a)
Subsection (3)
applies whether the person started serving the sentence before, on or
after the commencement of that subsection.
(2) Section 69—after subsection (4) insert:
(5) For the
purposes of this section, a reference to a person in custody serving a
sentence of imprisonment includes—
(a) a prisoner (within the meaning of the
Correctional
Services Act 1982
); and
(b) a prisoner who is on home detention under the
Correctional
Services Act 1982
; and
(c) a person who is detained in a training centre within the meaning of
the
Young
Offenders Act 1993
; and
(d) a person who is subject to detention of a kind that
is—
(i) imposed by or under an Act or law; and
(ii) prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this
subsection.