Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 46

46 .         Enrolment officer’s functions in relation to entitlement of claimant considered insufficient or incorrect

        (1)         If the enrolment officer has reason to believe that the claimant’s entitlement to be enrolled as set out in the claimant’s claim is insufficient or incorrect, the enrolment officer may, if the enrolment officer thinks fit, refer the claim to —

            (a)         any officer mentioned in section 35, qualified in the enrolment officer’s opinion to report on the claim;

            (b)         an officer of the Australian Electoral Commission established by the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 section 6, if the enrolment officer has reason to believe that an officer of that Commission is willing to report on the claim.

        (2)         An officer to whom a claim is referred under subsection (1)(a) must forthwith make all necessary inquiries and report to the enrolment officer.

        (3)         If a report from an officer mentioned in subsection (1) is adverse to the claimant, the enrolment officer must object to the claim under section 47(1) or, if the claimant has been enrolled, to the enrolment under section 48(1)(b).

        [Section 46 inserted: No. 9 of 1983 s. 11; amended: No. 36 of 2000 s. 28(2) and 29; No. 30 of 2023 s. 37.]

        [Heading amended: No. 14 of 2016 s. 28(6).]

        [Heading inserted: No. 14 of 2016 s. 28(1).]