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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Electoral (Prisoner Voting) Amendment
Bill 2018
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Electoral
Act 1985
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Electoral
Act 1985
27BProvision of
information to Commonwealth Electoral Commissioner
5Amendment of section 68—Certified list of
electors
6Amendment 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 2018.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
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
After section 27A insert:
27B—Provision of information to Commonwealth
Electoral Commissioner
The Electoral Commissioner may provide to the Electoral Commissioner under
the Commonwealth Act any information in the Electoral Commissioner's possession
related to the preparation, alteration or revision of the electoral
roll.
5—Amendment
of section 68—Certified list of electors
(1) Section 68(1)—delete "the electors enrolled for" and
substitute:
electors in relation to
(2) Section 68—after subsection (1) insert:
(1a) A list of electors under subsection (1) must include the names
of all electors enrolled in relation to the district but must not include the
names of persons who are not entitled to vote at the election under
section 69(3).
6—Amendment
of section 69—Entitlement to vote
(1) Section 69(2)—after subsection (2) insert:
(3) A person who is, as at the close of the rolls for an election, a
designated person is not entitled to vote at the election.
(2) Section 69—after subsection (4) insert:
(5) For the purposes of this section—
(a) a person is a designated person if—
(i) the person is in custody serving 1 or more sentences of imprisonment
or detention for 1 or more offences against a law of this State, the
Commonwealth or another State or Territory; and
(ii) the total period of imprisonment or detention liable to be served is
3 years or more; and
(b) a reference to a person in custody serving 1 or more sentences
of imprisonment or detention includes—
(i) a prisoner within the meaning of the
Correctional
Services Act 1982
; and
(ii) a prisoner on home detention under the
Correctional
Services Act 1982
or Part 3, Division 7, Subdivision 1 of the
Sentencing
Act 2017
; and
(iii) a person who is detained in a training centre within the meaning of
the
Young
Offenders Act 1993
; and
(iv) a person who is subject to detention of a kind that
is—
(A) imposed by or under an Act or law; and
(B) prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this
subsection,
but does not include a person detained under an order under Part 8A of
the
Criminal
Law Consolidation Act 1935
.