32B—Enrolment or transfer of enrolment
(1) Where a claim for
enrolment or transfer of enrolment made in accordance with section 32(1a)
is received at the office of an electoral registrar, the electoral registrar
must—
(a) if
satisfied of the validity of the claim—enrol the claimant or transfer
the enrolment of the claimant, in accordance with the claim; or
(b) if
not satisfied of the validity of the claim—reject the claim.
(2) No enrolment
may—
(a) be
made on the roll for a subdivision; or
(b) be
transferred from or to the roll for a subdivision,
on the basis of a claim received at the office of an electoral registrar or by
operation of subsection (4) between the time on which rolls for an
election in the relevant district close and polling day for that election.
(3) Where a claim is
rejected, the electoral registrar must notify the claimant in writing—
(a) of
the rejection of the claim; and
(b) of
the reasons for its rejection; and
(c) of
the claimant's rights under this Act to seek a review of the decision.
(4) If a person is
enrolled on the Commonwealth roll and the person's address recorded on that
roll is an address in a subdivision—
(a) the
person is, for the purposes of this Act, to be taken—
(i)
in the case of a person enrolled on the Commonwealth roll
under section 100 of the Commonwealth Act—
(A) to have made a claim for enrolment; and
(B) to be provisionally enrolled; and
(ii)
in any other case—
(A) to have made a claim in accordance with
this Act, or given notice under section 32A (as the case requires); and
(B) to be enrolled as an elector for the
subdivision for the purposes of this Act; and
(b) the
particulars on the Commonwealth roll in relation to the person are, with such
modifications (if any) as an electoral registrar considers necessary for the
purposes of Part 4 of this Act, to be taken to be the particulars in relation
to the person on the roll for the subdivision, unless the electoral registrar
is satisfied that the person's particulars on the roll for the subdivision are
more up-to-date than his or her particulars on the Commonwealth roll.