Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Governor may
make regulations for and in relation to —
(a)
enrolment as an elector; and
(b)
compulsory enrolment of persons as electors, including a procedure for
imposing and recovery of penalties by the Electoral Commissioner for offences
against the compulsory enrolment provisions of this Act; and
(c)
anything necessary or convenient to be prescribed for paragraphs (a) and (b).
(2) Without limiting
subsection (1), the regulations may provide —
(a)
subject to subsection (3), that a person entitled to be enrolled must send a
claim for enrolment and comply with particular provisions of this Act; and
(b) a
penalty not exceeding $50 for the contravention of a regulation made under
this section.
(3) Regulations under
subsection (1) must not require a person who has sent a claim for enrolment to
sign or send in another claim unless the person has changed their primary
residential address.
[Section 38 inserted: No. 30 of 2023 s. 29.]
[ 39. Deleted: No. 30 of 2023 s. 29.]