Victorian Consolidated Regulations

ELECTORAL REGULATIONS 2022

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Objectives  
   2.      Authorising provision  
   3.      Commencement  
   4.      Revocations  
   5.      Definitions  
   6.      Forms  

   PART 2--ENROLMENT PROCEDURES AND INFORMATION

   7.      Claim for enrolment or provisional enrolment  
   8.      Enrolment by physically incapacitated persons  
   9.      Processing of claims for enrolment and notices of change of address  
   10.     Application to be a general postal voter  
   11.     Processing of application to be a general postal voter  
   12.     Review and cancellation of designation as a general postal voter  
   13.     Request for address of an elector's principal place of residence not to be shown on electoral roll  
   14.     Objection to a person's enrolment  
   15.     Notice of objection  

   PART 3--REGISTRATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES

   16.     Political party registration form  
   17.     Confirmation of membership form  

   PART 4--ELECTION PROCEDURES

   18.     Candidate nomination form  
   19.     How-to-vote card declaration  
   20.     Minimum size of logo, emblem or insignia  
   21.     Endorsement of how-to-vote cards  

   PART 5--VOTING

   22.     Declaration as to identity  
   23.     Application to vote by post  
   24.     Postal voter declaration  
   25.     Receipt and forwarding of postal vote envelopes  
   26.     Forwarding of early votes  
   27.     Forwarding of early votes from Antarctica  
   28.     Application and declaration under section 108  
   29.     Forms of identification  
   30.     Statement of person's rights under section 108  
   31.     Determination of entitlement to be enrolled and vote  
   32.     Declaration of absent voter  
   33.     Forwarding of absent votes  
   34.     Declaration of elector claiming no ballot-paper received  

   PART 6--ELECTRONIC VOTING AT OVERSEAS OR INTERSTATE EARLY VOTING CENTRES

   35.     Electronic voting at overseas or interstate early voting centres  
   36.     Availability of electronic voting at overseas or interstate early voting centres  
   37.     Approval of computer program for electronic voting at overseas or interstate early voting centres  
   38.     Security arrangements for electronic voting at overseas or interstate early voting centres  
   39.     Ballot-papers for electronic voting at overseas or interstate early voting centres  
   40.     Voting process for electronic voting at overseas or interstate early voting centres  

   PART 7--ELECTION RESULTS

   41.     Preliminary scrutiny of declaration votes—general  
   42.     Preliminary scrutiny of postal vote declarations  
   43.     Preliminary scrutiny of declarations under section 108  
   44.     Preliminary scrutiny of written absent declarations under section 109  
   45.     Preliminary scrutiny of declarations under section 110  
   46.     Extraction of ballot-papers from accepted declaration envelopes  
   47.     Ballot material to be secured and stored  

   PART 8--ENFORCEMENT AND OFFENCES

   48.     Notice to elector who has apparently failed to vote  
   49.     Reply to notice by elector  

   PART 9--GENERAL

   50.     Access to electronic assisted voting  
   52.     Emergency determination  
   53.     Official mark on ballot-papers  
   54.     Exhibit of notice or sign within 100 metres of entrance to voting centre  

   PART 10--POLITICAL DONATIONS DISCLOSURE AND REPORTING SCHEME

   55.     Principles for determining amount or value of gifts other than money  
   56.     Register of Agents  
   57.     Confidential information  

   PART 11--SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

   58.     Use of forms prescribed under Electoral Regulations 2012  
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