Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 42

42 .         Form of claims

        (1)         A claim —

            (a)         may be in the prescribed form; and

            (b)         must be signed by the claimant; and

            (ca)         must include or be accompanied by such evidence of identity as is required under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 section 98AA(2) in relation to an application or claim to which that section applies; and

            (c)         must be sent to the Electoral Commissioner.

        (2)         Despite subsection (1)(b), if —

            (a)         the claimant is already enrolled; and

            (b)         the claimant’s name is still the same as the name under which the claimant is enrolled,

                the requirement that the claim be signed is to be taken to be satisfied if the claimant instead satisfies the requirements to be satisfied in respect of a claim under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 section 382(7).

        (3)         If the Electoral Commissioner receives a claim under subsection (1)(c), the Electoral Commissioner must cause the claim, and any application to be a silent elector lodged with it under section 51B(1), to be referred to an officer.

        (4)         An officer who receives a claim under subsection (3) must record the claim.

        [Section 42 inserted: No. 9 of 1983 s. 6; amended: No. 36 of 2000 s. 28(1); No. 35 of 2012 s. 8; No. 30 of 2023 s. 33.]

[ 42A.         Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e).]