{"id":"C1919L00057","name":"Electoral and Referendum Regulations 1918","slug":"electoral-and-referendum-regulations-1918","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"57 of 1919","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":20831,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1919L00057-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Div 1","sectionType":"division","heading":"Enrolment.","content":"Division 1.—Enrolment.\n\nForm of roll. Sec. 31.\n\n6. The Roll may be in accordance with Form 1, and shall contain the particulars indicated, therein.\n\nSale of electoral rolls. Sec. 37 (1).\n\n7. The prices at which Rolls shall be sold shall be as follow:—\n\n| | s. | d. |\n| ----------------------------------- | --- | --- |\n| Principal Roll for a Division | 2 | 0 |\n| Principal Roll for a Subdivision | 0 | 6 |\n| Supplemental Roll for a Division | 0 | 6 |\n| Supplemental Roll for a Subdivision | 0 | 3 |\n\nForm of electoral claim. Secs. 40-42 and 47.\n\n8\\. (1) The form of claim for enrolment, or transfer of enrolment, or notification of change of address within the same Subdivision, by a person not under the age of 21 years and qualified for enrolment under section 39 (1) of the Act, may be in accordance with Form 2.\n\n(2) The form of claim for enrolment, or transfer of enrolment, or notification of change of address within the same Subdivision, by a person who is or has been a Member of the Forces within the meaning of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Act 1917 and who is qualified for enrolment, under Section 39 (2) of the Act may be in accordance with Form 2a.\n\n(3) Any person applying for correction of the entry on the Roll of his name or particulars of enrolment may apply in accordance with Form 2 or 2a, as the case requires, or in such other form, signed by the applicant, as the Registrar approves. \n\nRegistration of claim. Secs. 43 (1), 47 (1) (a) and (b).\n\n9\\. (1) Upon receipt of a claim for enrolment or transfer of enrolment, or notification of change of address within the Subdivision, or application for the alteration or correction of particulars of an existing enrolment, the Registrar shall note thereon the date of its receipt by him, and if the claim, notification, or application is in order and he is satisfied that the claimant is entitled to be enrolled or to have his name transferred or the particulars of his enrolment altered or corrected, the Registrar shall forthwith—\n\n(i) enter on the Subdivision Roll the name of the claimant and the particulars relating to him or alter or correct the particulars of his enrolment, as the case requires; and\n\n(ii) in the case of an enrolment or a transfer of enrolment, notify the claimant in accordance with Form 3 that he has been enrolled; and\n\n(iii) in the case of a transfer of enrolment give notice of the transfer to the Registrar keeping the Subdivision Roll from which the elector’s name has been transferred.\n\n(2) An interim acknowledgment of the receipt, after the issue of the Writ for an election or a referendum, and before the close of the polling at the election or referendum, of a claim for enrolment or transfer of enrolment, may be issued to the elector by the Registrar, in the form authorized by the Chief Electoral Officer.\n\nNotification of transfer of enrolment. Sec. 43 (1).\n\n10\\. The notification of the transfer of the enrolment of an elector, or the enrolments of electors, may be in accordance with Form 4.\n\nReference of claim to Divisional Returning Officer. Sec. 44 (1).\n\n11\\. (1) The reference of an Electoral Claim to the Divisional Returning Officer for his decision pursuant to section 44 (1) of the Act may be made in the form authorized by the Chief Electoral Officer.\n\n(2) The notification to the claimant of such reference may be in accordance with Form 5.\n\nNotification of rejection of claim. Sec. 44 (4).\n\n12\\. (1) The notification by the Divisional Returning Officer to the Registrar of the rejection of an Electoral Claim may be in the form authorized by the Chief Electoral Officer.\n\n(2) The notification to the claimant of the rejection of an Electoral Claim may be in accordance with Form 6.\n\nFormally defective claim.\n\n13\\. The Registrar, upon receipt of an Electoral Claim which is not in order by reason of some formal defect only, may send to the claimant a notification in accordance with Form 7 indicating the nature of the defect, and, as the case requires—\n\n(a) return the Claim to him for completion or correction; or\n\n(b) furnish him with a fresh form of Claim for completion.\n\nCertificate authorizing removal of name. Sec. 47 (1) (h).\n\n14\\. The certificate of the Commonwealth Electoral Officer authorizing the removal of the name of an elector, or the names of electors, from a roll, and the direction of the Divisional Returning Officer thereon, may be in accordance with Form 8.\n\nNotification of removal of name from roll. Sec. 47 (1) (h).\n\n15\\. Where a name is removed from a Roll by direction of the Divisional Returning Officer upon the certificate of the Commonwealth Electoral Officer pursuant to Section 47 (1) (h) of the Act, the Registrar shall send to the elector whose name is so removed a notification in accordance with Form 9. \n\nChange of electors from one roll to another under Section 28 of Act. Sec. 28.\n\n16. (1) The change of electors from one Roll to another in, accordance with section 28 of the Act shall be effected, where necessary, by removing the names of the electors from the Roll from which they are changed and by inserting the names so removed on the Roll to which they are changed.\n\n(2) Notice of the change shall be sent by post to each elector concerned and may be in accordance with Form 10.\n\nProvided that when—\n\n(a) a Subdivision is abolished and all electors whose names are on the Roll for that Subdivision are changed to another Subdivision Roll; or\n\n(b) by reason of the alteration of the boundaries of a Division any Subdivision is changed from one Division to another Division and all the names of electors which are on the Subdivision Roll for the first mentioned Division are changed to a Subdivision Roll for the last mentioned Division\n\npublic notice of the change may be given in the Gazette, and in some newspaper circulating in the part affected, and in that case the notice specified in sub-regulation (2) of this regulation need not be given.\n\n","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"Div 2","sectionType":"division","heading":"Enforcement of Law in Relation to Enrolment.","content":"Division 2.—Enforcement of Law in Relation to Enrolment.\n\nInquiry and report by Registrar. Sec. 42.\n\n17. The Registrar shall, subject to such directions as he receives from the Divisional Returning Officer, make such inquiries from time to time practicable in order to ascertain the names of qualified persons who are entitled to enrolment for the Subdivision for which he keeps the Roll, but are not enrolled therefor, and shall, when any failure to comply with the law is disclosed, report to the Divisional Returning Officer in accordance with Form 11.\n\nNotification in respect of offence. Sec. 42.\n\n18. Subject to such directions as are issued by the Chief Electoral Officer the Divisional Returning Officer shall, if satisfied that a qualified person has failed to comply with the requirements of Section 42 of the Act, forthwith notify him of such, failure in accordance with Form 12, and inform him that he may reply by Statutory Declaration setting out any facts relevant, to the matter, and that he has the option of having the matter dealt with either by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State, or by a Court of Summary Jurisdiction.\n\nConsent to matter being dealt with by Commonwealth Electoral Officer. Sec. 42.\n\n19. Any person to whom a notification has been sent pursuant to the last preceding regulation, who desires the matter to be dealt with by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer, and who is prepared to abide by the decision of that officer, may notify the Divisional Returning Officer in accordance with Form 13.\n\nProceedings upon receipt of consent to matter being dealt with by Commonwealth Electoral Officer. Sec. 42.\n\n20. Upon the receipt from a person who has failed to comply with the requirements of Section 42 of the Act, of a notification consenting to the matter being dealt with by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer and undertaking to abide by the decision of that officer, the Divisional Returning Officer shall consider the statements contained in the Statutory Declaration (if any) submitted by the person, make such further inquiry as he deems necessary, and, unless he decides to withdraw the case, transmit the Statutory Declaration (if any) and notification, with a report as to the facts and his opinion thereon, to the Commonwealth Electoral Officer. \n\nAction by Commonwealth Electoral Officer upon receipt of report from Divisional Returning Officer. Sec. 42.\n\n21\\. (1) Subject to such directions as are issued by the Chief Electoral Officer, the Commonwealth Electoral Officer shall, upon the receipt of a report from a Divisional Returning Officer in respect of an alleged contravention of Section 42 of the Act, consider all the facts, and if satisfied that the person concerned is in default or has contravened the provisions of the Section, he may make an order imposing upon that person a penalty not exceeding Ten shillings for a first offence, and not exceeding Two pounds for any subsequent offence, and notify the Divisional Returning Officer thereof and of the time allowed for payment.\n\n(2) Any penalty imposed, by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer in pursuance of this Regulation shall be a debt due to the Commonwealth, and, in default of payment within the time allowed, may be recovered in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 23 of these Regulations.\n\nNotification of imposition of penalty. Sec. 42.\n\n22\\. The Divisional Returning Officer, upon receipt of advice from the Commonwealth Electoral Officer that a penalty has been imposed upon any person for a contravention of Section 42 of the Act, shall notify the person in accordance with Form 14.\n\nEnforcement of penalties.\n\n23. (1) Any order made by a Commonwealth Electoral Officer under Regulation 21 of these Regulations imposing a penalty, may be filed in any Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and thereupon the order shall have effect as if it were an Order of that Court.\n\n(2) Subject to these Regulations, all laws of the State relating to the enforcement of Orders of Courts of Summary Jurisdiction in force in the place where the Court in which the Order is filed is situated shall, to the extent to which they are applicable, apply to all matters relating or incidental to, or in connexion with, the enforcement of the penalty specified in the Order so filed, and to any process for such enforcement.\n\n(3) On the application of a Divisional Returning Officer, any justice of the peace having jurisdiction in the place may issue a warrant of execution, or other applicable process, for the purpose of the enforcement of the Order so filed.\n\n(4) A warrant of execution or other applicable process may be in accordance with any form of warrant of execution or distress or other process applicable to the circumstances under any law in force in the State where the warrant is issued.\n\n(5) Any form of warrant of execution, or other process, whether provided by these Regulations or by the law of the State, may be varied according to the circumstances of the case, and no warrant of execution, or other process, shall be held to be invalid by reason of want of form.\n\nProceedings where matter not dealt with by Commonwealth Electoral Officer. Sec. 42.\n\n24. (1) Where any person to whom a notification pursuant to regulation 18 has been sent fails, within the time allowed, to reply thereto, or does not within that time consent to the matter being dealt with by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer, the Divisional Returning Officer shall, subject to such directions as he receives from the Commonwealth Electoral Officer, if he is satisfied that such person has contravened Section 42 of the Act, cause proceedings to be instituted against him in a Court of Summary Jurisdiction:\n\nProvided that where the Divisional Returning Officer, with the concurrence of the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State, deems it advisable, the Registrar, for the Subdivision may institute proceedings in his own name, and in any such proceedings the authority of the Registrar shall not be questioned. \n\n(2) If, in any case in which proceedings are instituted in a Court of Summary Jurisdiction, the Divisional Returning Officer has received from the person concerned a Statutory Declaration in pursuance of Regulation 18 he shall, as far as it is practicable and necessary for him to do so, inquire into the truth of the statements therein set out, and shall, unless he withdraws the prosecution, cause the declaration to be brought to the notice of the Court.\n\n(3) The Court shall at the hearing of the case consider the statutory declaration (whether the defendant is present or not) as if the matter therein set out had been given in evidence before it.\n\nDeclaration by prosecuting officer to be considered by Court.\n\n25. In any prosecution in respect of any contravention of Section 43 of the Act relating to compulsory enrolment, the prosecuting officer may lodge with the Court a statutory declaration in support of the charge, and the Court shall, at the hearing, consider the statutory declaration (whether the prosecuting officer is present or not) as if the matter set out therein had been given in evidence before it.\n\n","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"Div 3","sectionType":"division","heading":"Objections.","content":"Division 3.—Objections.\n\nNotice of objection. Sec. 53.\n\n26\\. (1) The notice of objection lodged by an elector or officer—not being a Registrar—in respect of a name on a Roll may be in accordance with Form 15.\n\n(2) The notice of objection lodged by a Registrar in respect of a name on a Roll and the direction of the Divisional Returning Officer may be in accordance with Form 16.\n\nNotice to person objected to on the ground of non-residence. Sec. 55.\n\n27. The notice to be forwarded by the Divisional Returning Officer to a person whose name has been objected to upon the ground of non-residence may be in accordance with Form 17.\n\nNotice to person objected to on ground other than non-residence. Sec. 55.\n\n28. The notice to be forwarded by the Divisional Returning Officer to a person whose name has been objected to on a ground other than non-residence may be in accordance with Form 18.\n\nManner of answering objection. Sec. 56.\n\n29. Any person against whom an objection has been lodged or made may answer the objection as follows:—\n\n(a) by attending before the Divisional Returning Officer at the place mentioned in the notice sent by the Divisional Returning Officer to him and making an oral statement to show that the objection is not good; or\n\n(b) by sending by post or delivering to the Divisional Returning Officer at his office a statement in writing to show that the objection is not good.\n\nInquiry into objection. Sec. 57.\n\n30. Before determining an objection, the Divisional Returning Officer may make such inquiries as he thinks necessary to ascertain the facts in relation to the objection.\n\nNotice of determination of objection. Sec. 57.\n\n31\\. (1) Upon determining an objection the Divisional Returning Officer shall send notice of his decision in accordance with Form 19 to the objector if the objector is not a Registrar, and to the person objected to if the person objected to has answered the objection within the prescribed period.\n\n(2) Where an objector is a Registrar, notice of the decision on the objection may be sent to him in accordance with the indorsement on Form 16, and such notice may contain a direction for the removal of an elector’s name from the Roll when an objection has been sustained. \n\n","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"Div 4","sectionType":"division","heading":"–Miscellaneous.","content":"Division 4. –Miscellaneous.\n\nElectoral appeals. Sec. 58.\n\n32. (1) An application under section 58 of the Act to a court of summary jurisdiction may be made at any time within one calendar month after the receipt of notice of the rejection of a claim for enrolment or transfer of enrolment (regulation 12), or of notice of the determination of an objection (regulation 31), and may be made in writing in the form of a complaint setting out the material facts and asking that the Divisional Returning Officer be summoned to answer the complaint.\n\n(2) Upon the complaint being lodged with him, the clerk of the court shall issue a summons to the Divisional Returning Officer to appear before the court at a time and place mentioned in the summons to answer the complaint and produce all papers connected with the claim for enrolment or transfer of enrolment, or the objection, as the case requires.\n\n(3) The Divisional Returning Officer may, by himself or some person appointed to represent him, appear at the hearing and produce to the court all papers connected with the claim for enrolment or transfer of enrolment, or the objection, as the case requires, but, if he does not desire to appear, he may send the papers to the clerk, to be produced at the hearing, together with a statement in writing containing such observations as he sees fit to make, and any such statement shall be considered by the court at the hearing.\n\n(4) The Divisional Returning Officer, if present at the hearing, or the person representing him, shall be entitled to be heard.\n\nWithdrawal of consent to nomination. Sec. 80.\n\n33. The notice of withdrawal by a Candidate of his consent to nomination may be in accordance with Form 20 and shall be signed by the Candidate in the presence of the officer with whom the nomination was lodged or of a Justice of the Peace.\n\nPart III.—Electoral and Referendum.\n\nDivision 1.—Conduct of Elections and Referendums.\n\nUndertaking by Officers and Scrutineers. Secs. 98 and 108.\n\n34.(1) Every Divisional Returning Officer, Assistant Returning Officer, Presiding Officer, Assistant Presiding Officer, Substitute Presiding Officer, Poll Clerk, and Scrutineer shall make and subscribe an undertaking in accordance with Form 21.\n\n(2) An omission by a Divisional Returning Officer, Assistant Returning Officer, Presiding Officer, Assistant Presiding Officer, Substitute Presiding Officer, Poll Clerk, or Scrutineer to sign the undertaking required by this Regulation shall not be a ground for setting aside any election or referendum.\n\nPolling places. Sec. 27.\n\n35.(1) The polling places for a Subdivision shall be those polling places which are declared by the Minister by Gazette notice to be the polling places for that Subdivision and for all electors who are enrolled for that Subdivision.\n\n(2) Until polling places are declared by the Minister in pursuance of this Regulation, the polling places declared in pursuance of regulations repealed by these Regulations shall be deemed to be polling places declared for the purpose of this Regulation.\n\nUse of polling booth for two elections, &c. Sec. 98.\n\n36\\. The polling booths and ballot-boxes provided for the purposes of any election may be used for the purposes of any other election or any referendum or referendums held on the same day; but the ballot-papers for each election and referendum shall be distinctively coloured. \n\nBallot-boxes. Sec. 102.\n\n37. Each ballot-box shall have a cleft in the cover through which the ballot-papers may be deposited in the ballot-box, and shall be provided with means for securely closing the cleft. The ballot-box shall also be capable of being securely fastened by means of a lock.\n\nOfficial mark. Sec. 133.\n\n38. The official mark for the authentication of ballot-papers shall be water mark in the paper thereof, consisting of a representation of a shield having therein the letters “C A” intertwined.\n\nIndorsement on ballot-papers. Secs. 90 and 107.\n\n39. A circle containing the words “Divisional Returning Officer’s initials,” or “Presiding Officer’s initials,” as the case requires, may be printed on the back of any ballot-paper, and the words “Postal Vote” or “Absent Vote” may be printed or written on the back of any postal ballot-paper or absent voter’s ballot-paper, as the case requires.\n\nDivision 2.—Voting by Post.\n\nForm of application for postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper. Sec. 85.\n\n40\\. The application for a postal vote certificate and a postal ballot-paper or postal ballot-papers for a Senate election or a House of Representatives election or both may be in accordance with Form 22.\n\nForm of postal vote certificate. Sec. 88.\n\n41\\. (1) The postal vote certificate may be in accordance with Form 23.\n\n(2) The form may be printed on an envelope addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division for which the elector named in the certificate declares that he is enrolled.\n\nForm of postal ballot-paper—Senate election. Sec. 88.\n\n42. The postal ballot-paper for a Senate election may be in accordance with Form 24.\n\nForm of postal ballot-paper—House of Representatives election. Sec. 88.\n\n43\\. (1) The postal ballot-paper for a House of Representatives election may be in accordance with Form 25.\n\n(2) Before issuing any postal ballot-paper the Divisional Returning Officer shall, if the particulars are not already printed thereon, fill in (a) the name of the State and the name of the Division for which the voter declares that he is enrolled; and (b) the full names of all the candidates for that Division, in alphabetical order of their surnames.\n\nManner of marking postal votes. Sec. 92.\n\n44. (1) In a Senate election, an elector, voting by post, shall mark his vote on his postal ballot-paper by writing thereon, in the spaces provided for the purpose, the names of the candidates for whom he votes but shall not vote for a greater or lesser number of candidates than the number required to be elected.\n\n(2) In a House of Representatives election, an elector, voting by post, shall mark his vote on his postal ballot-paper by placing thereon the number 1 in the square opposite the name of the candidate for whom he votes as his first preference; and must give contingent votes for all the remaining candidates by placing the numbers 2, 3, 4 (and so on, as the case requires), in the squares opposite their names, so as to indicate the order of his preference for them.\n\nBallot-box for postal votes.\n\n45\\. The Returning Officer for each Division shall keep a locked and sealed ballot-box with the words “Postal Ballot-box” marked thereon, and shall place and keep therein until the scrutiny all envelopes containing postal ballot-papers received up to the close of the poll. \n\nDivision 3.—Facilities for Voting as an Absent Voter.\n\nWhere an elector may vote as an absent voter. Sec. 113.\n\n46. In a Senate election, or a House of Representatives election, or a referendum, an elector may, subject to these Regulations, vote as an absent voter on polling day at any polling place within the Commonwealth, not being a prescribed polling place for the Subdivision for which he is enrolled, provided that a polling booth is open under the law on that day at such polling place, and provided further, and it is hereby declared, that the privilege of voting at a polling place as an absent voter is dependent upon the arrangements of the polling place, at which the elector claims to vote as an absent voter, being such as to enable the vote to be recorded, and to be recorded without interference with the rights of the electors enrolled for the Subdivision for which the polling place is prescribed.\n\nVoter to state name and particulars. Sec. 113.\n\n47. The elector must state his name, his place of living, and occupation, as appearing on the Roll, and the Division for which he is enrolled, and, to the best of his knowledge, the Subdivision for which he is enrolled.\n\nQuestions which may be put to voter. Sec. 113.\n\n48. The Presiding Officer may, if he thinks fit, and, at the request of any Scrutineer, shall, put to the elector any of the questions applicable to the case prescribed by Section 115 of the Act.\n\nDeclaration by voter. Sec. 113.\n\n49. If the elector’s answers to the questions put to him show that he is entitled to vote as an absent voter, or if no questions are put to him, he may be allowed to vote as an absent voter on making a declaration in accordance with Form 26. The declaration may be printed on an envelope addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division for which the elector declares that he is enrolled.\n\nPhysically incapacitated or illiterate electors.\n\n50. If any elector who claims to vote as an absent voter satisfies the Presiding Officer that his sight is so impaired or that he is so physically incapacitated or illiterate that he is unable to vote without assistance, the Presiding Officer, in the presence of such scrutineers as may be present, or, if there be no scrutineers present, then—\n\n(i) in the presence of the Poll Clerk, or\n\n(ii) if the elector so desires, in the presence of a person appointed by such elector, instead of the Poll Clerk,\n\nshall take the following action:—\n\n(a) fill, in the form of declaration with the required particulars relating to the enrolment of the elector, as requested by such elector;\n\n(b) read over to the elector the form of declaration;\n\n(c) require the elector to sign the form of declaration—\n\n(i) in his own handwriting if he is able to do so; or\n\n(ii) with his mark as his personal signature if he is unable to sign his name in his own handwriting;\n\n(d) cause the signature of the elector, if made by means of a mark, to be witnessed by a scrutineer present, or, if no scrutineer be present, by the Poll Clerk or the person appointed by the elector;\n\n(e) complete and attest the declaration;\n\n(f) mark and fold the ballot-paper or ballot-papers (as the case requires) for the elector;\n\n(g) enclose the ballot-paper or ballot-papers in the envelope bearing the absent voter’s declaration; and\n\n(h) securely fasten the envelope and deal with it in the manner directed in relation to other absent voters’ ballot-papers. \n\nDivision 4 —Forms of Absent Voters’ Ballot Papers.\n\nAbsent voter’s ballot-paper— Senate election. Sec. 113.\n\n51\\. The ballot-paper for a Senate Election to be used by an elector voting as an absent voter may be in accordance with Form 27, provided that the names of the Candidates, and the name of the State and the name of the Division, may be either printed or written thereon.\n\nAbsent voter’s ballot-paper—House of Representatives election. Sec. 113.\n\n52\\. The ballot-paper for a House of Representatives Election to be used by an elector voting as an absent voter may be in accordance with Form 28 provided that the names of the Candidates, and the name of the State and the name of the Division, may be either printed or written thereon.\n\nAbsent voter’s ballot-paper for referendum in respect of one proposed law.\n\n53. The ballot-paper for a referendum in respect of one proposed law to be used by an elector voting as an absent voter, may be in accordance with Form 29.\n\nAbsent voter’s ballot-paper for referendum in respect of two or more proposed laws.\n\n54\\. Where two or more proposed laws are submitted to the electors on the same day under the provisions of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act in force for the time being, the ballot-papers relating to any two or more of those proposed laws, to be used by an elector voting as an absent voter, may be included in one special form of ballot-paper which may be in accordance with Form 30.\n\n","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"Div 5","sectionType":"division","heading":"Records in connexion with Absent Votes.","content":"Division 5.—Records in connexion with Absent Votes.\n\nRecord of absent voters.\n\n55\\. The Presiding Officer shall make a record of the name of each elector who has voted at his polling booth as an absent voter at an election or referendum, together with such particulars as are required relating to the enrolment of the elector as indicated on the form of declaration, and, at the close of the poll, shall forward the record, duly certified, under seal, to the Assistant Returning Officer.\n\nAbsent voters’ ballot-papers—action by Assistant Returning Officer. Sec. 113.\n\n56. The Assistant Returning Officer, on receipt from a Presiding Officer of a ballot-box containing absent voters’ ballot-papers enclosed in the envelopes bearing the electors’ declarations, will take the following action:—\n\n(a) check the number of such envelopes with the number appearing in the Presiding Officer’s record, preserve a note thereof, and report any discrepancy to his Divisional Returning Officer;\n\n(b) place in a separate parcel the envelopes addressed to each Divisional Returning Officer, indorse on each parcel the total number of envelopes contained therein, and add his signature and the date;\n\n(c) place each parcel in an outer cover, fully addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division for which the electors declare that they are enrolled, fasten and seal the cover, and forthwith transmit the package by registered post to the Divisional Returning Officer;\n\n(d) immediately advise, by telegraph or by such other expeditious means as may be directed, each Divisional Returning Officer concerned of the total number of envelopes, bearing absent voters’ declarations, so forwarded to him.\n\nCustody of absent voters’ ballot-papers. Sec. 113.\n\n57\\. The Divisional Returning Officer shall preserve in his custody—\n\n(a) a book, in which he shall record from time to time the number of envelopes bearing absent voters’ declarations received by him from each Assistant Returning Officer;\n\n(b) a locked and sealed ballot-box, marked “Absent Voters’ Ballot-box,” in which he shall forthwith place all envelopes hearing absent voters’ declarations received by him from Assistant Returning Officers. \n\n","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"Div 6","sectionType":"division","heading":"Scrutiny of Absent Voters’ Ballot-papers.","content":"Division 6.—Scrutiny of Absent Voters’ Ballot-papers.\n\nWho may attend scrutiny. Sec. 113.\n\n58\\. The scrutiny of absent voters’ ballot-papers shall commence as soon as practicable after the close of the poll, and shall be conducted, with the assistance of at least one Assistant Returning Officer, in the presence of such authorized scrutineers as choose to attend and any other persons approved by the Divisional Returning Officer.\n\nPreliminary scrutiny. Sec. 113.\n\n59\\. (1) The Divisional Returning Officer shall—\n\n(a) produce and open the absent voters’ ballot-box in which the envelopes containing the absent voters’ ballot-papers have been placed;\n\n(b) place in one parcel the unopened envelopes bearing the duly signed and attested declarations of those persons who he is satisfied are enrolled for his Division, accept for further scrutiny the ballot-papers contained therein, and place a mark opposite the name of each of such persons on a certified copy of the Roll to be used by him for the purposes of the scrutiny;\n\n(c) place in another parcel the unopened envelopes bearing the declarations of those persons who he is satisfied are not enrolled for his Division, or whose declarations are not duly signed and attested, fasten and seal the parcel, indorse thereon the words “absent voters’ ballot-papers rejected at the preliminary scrutiny,” and add the name of the Division, his signature, and the date:\n\nProvided that an absent voter’s ballot-paper shall not be rejected at the preliminary scrutiny by reason only of the fact that the Presiding Officer has omitted to attest the declaration of the elector if before the declaration of the poll the officer certifies that the omission was due to inadvertence, and that the declaration was, as a matter of fact, duly signed in such officer’s presence.\n\n(d) place the envelopes containing the ballot-papers which he has decided to accept for further scrutiny before him on a table in such a manner that the face only of each envelope bearing the address of the Divisional Returning Officer shall be visible;\n\n(e) number each envelope consecutively from one upwards in the top right-hand corner until the whole of the envelopes have been dealt with, and initial each number;\n\n(f) without further examining the declaration of any voter, or permitting any other person to do so, withdraw from the envelope each ballot-paper contained therein, and, without inspecting or unfolding such ballot-paper, or allowing any other person to do so, place thereon a number corresponding with that placed on the envelope from which the ballot-paper has been withdrawn, initial the number, and forthwith deposit the folded ballot-paper in a locked and sealed ballot-box for further scrutiny;\n\n(g) place the envelopes in a parcel, indorsed with the words “Envelopes bearing absent voters’ declarations from which ballot-papers have been withdrawn for further scrutiny,” fasten and seal the parcel, add the name of the Division, his signature, and the date. \n\n(2) It shall not be necessary for the Divisional Returning Officer to await the receipt of the whole of the envelopes containing absent voters’ ballot-papers for his Division before proceeding with the further scrutiny of the ballot-papers which have been placed in the ballot-box referred to in paragraph (f) of the preceding sub-regulation, but he shall keep sufficient uncounted ballot-papers in the ballot-box to insure that all ballot-papers for an election or referendum, when counted, shall be taken from a number sufficient to prevent the identity of the voters from being disclosed.\n\nFurther scrutiny. Sec. 113.\n\n60\\. At the further scrutiny, the Divisional Returning Officer shall open the ballot-box referred to in Regulation 59 (1) (f), examine the absent voters’ ballot-papers contained therein, and shall—\n\n(a) in a Senate election, allow and count the ballot-papers which are formal and disallow and reject those which are informal; and\n\n(b) in a House of Representatives election—\n\n(i) reject all informal ballot-papers, and arrange the unrejected ballot-papers under the names of the respective candidates by placing in a separate parcel all those in which a first preference is indicated for the same candidate;\n\n(ii) count the first preference votes given for each candidate on all unrejected ballot-papers; and\n\n(c) in a referendum, allow and count the ballot-papers which are formal and disallow and reject those which are informal.\n\nInformal ballot-papers. Sec. 113.\n\n61\\. (1) An absent voter’s ballot-paper shall be informal—\n\n(a) if in a Senate election or a House of Representatives election, or in a referendum, it is not authenticated by the initials of the proper officer, or by the official mark as prescribed under the provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act or the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act (as the case requires) in force for the time being; or\n\n(b) if in a Senate election it has no vote marked on it, or has votes marked on it for a greater or lesser number of candidates than the number required to be elected; or\n\n(c) if in a House of Representatives election it has no vote marked on it, or it does not indicate the voter’s first preference for one candidate and, in the case of any election where there are more than two candidates, his contingent votes for all the remaining candidates:\n\nProvided that in a House of Representatives election at which there are not more than two candidates, the voter’s preference for one candidate shall be deemed to be sufficiently indicated in the case of a ballot-paper marked so as to indicate the voter’s first preference only:\n\nProvided further that for the purpose of the last preceding proviso a cross in the square opposite the name of one candidate shall be deemed to indicate the voter’s first preference for that candidate; or\n\n(d) if in a referendum it has no vote marked on it, or has more than one vote marked on it; or\n\n(e) if in a Senate election or a House of Representatives election, or in a referendum, it has upon it any mark or writing (not lawfully authorized to be put upon it) by which in the opinion of the Divisional Returning Officer the voter can be identified; or \n\n(f) if in a Senate election or a House of Representatives election, or in a referendum, it is not contained in the envelope bearing the declaration of the elector:\n\nProvided that paragraph (e) of this sub-regulation shall not apply to any mark or writing placed upon the ballot-paper by an officer, notwithstanding that the placing of the mark or writing upon the ballot-paper is a contravention of the law; but if any officer unlawfully places any mark or writing on any ballot-paper which would enable any person to identify the voter to whom it is issued, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10.\n\n(2) In a Senate election an absent voter’s ballot-paper shall not be rejected as informal merely because the names of the whole of the candidates do not appear on the ballot-paper.\n\n(3) In a Senate election or a House of Representatives election an absent voter’s ballot-paper shall not be rejected as informal merely because the surname only of any candidate has been written thereon, if no other candidate has the same surname, or by reason of any mistake in spelling where there is no doubt as to the identity of the candidate.\n\n(4) An absent voter’s ballot-paper shall not be rejected merely because of a formal defect therein through the name of a wrong State or Division appearing thereon, or the omission of the name of the State or Division, if the name of the Division for which the elector is enrolled appears in the declaration of the elector.\n\n(5) In a Senate election or a House of Representatives election or a referendum an absent voter’s ballot-paper shall not be informal for any reason other than the reasons specified in this Regulation, but shall be given effect to according to the voter’s intention so far as his intention is clear.\n\nObjection by scrutineer to ballot-paper.\n\n62. If a scrutineer objects to a ballot-paper as being informal, the Divisional Returning Officer conducting the scrutiny shall mark the ballot-paper “Admitted,” or “Rejected,” according to his decision to admit or reject the ballot-paper, and add his initials, but nothing in this regulation shall prevent the Divisional Returning Officer from rejecting a ballot-paper as being informal although it is not objected to.\n\nParcelling of ballot-papers. Sec. 113.\n\n63. The Divisional Returning Officer shall place in separate parcels—\n\n(a) all absent voters’ ballot-papers allowed or admitted as formal for each election;\n\n(b) all absent voters’ ballot-papers disallowed or rejected as informal for each election;\n\n(c) all absent voters’ ballot-papers allowed or admitted as formal or disallowed or rejected as informal in connexion with any referendum or referendums;\n\nand shall fasten and seal each parcel, and indorse thereon particulars of the contents thereof, the name of the Division, and add his signature and the date.\n\nAbsent voters’ envelopes to be forwarded to Commonwealth Electoral Officer.\n\n64. The Divisional Returning Officer shall forthwith forward the sealed parcels of envelopes (bearing absent voters’ declarations) from which ballot-papers have been withdrawn for further scrutiny to the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State, who shall preserve the parcels until the authority of the Chief Electoral Officer has been obtained for their destruction. \n\nOpening of sealed parcels of ballot-papers. Secs. 113 and 136.\n\n65\\. (1) The sealed parcels of absent voters’ ballot-papers may only be opened—\n\n(a) in the case of a House of Representatives election, where no candidate has received an absolute majority of first preference votes cast at the election and it is necessary to determine the election in the manner provided in Section 136 of the Act; or\n\n(b) for the purposes of an authorized recount; or\n\n(c) by direction of the Court of Disputed Returns.\n\n(2) When sealed parcels of absent voters’ ballot-papers are opened in pursuance of paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-regulation the ballot-papers shall be dealt with in the same manner as ballot-papers contained in a parcel transmitted to the Divisional Returning Officer by an Assistant Returning Officer.\n\nPreservation of ballot-papers. Sec. 113.\n\n66\\. The Divisional Returning Officer shall preserve the sealed parcels—\n\n(a) of absent voters’ ballot-papers allowed or admitted at the scrutiny;\n\n(b) of absent voters’ ballot-papers disallowed or rejected at the scrutiny;\n\n(c) of envelopes bearing absent voters’ declarations and containing ballot-papers rejected at the preliminary Scrutiny, until the authority of the Chief Electoral Officer has been obtained for their destruction.\n\nOpening of sealed parcels of declarations.\n\n67\\. The sealed parcels of absent voters’ declarations may only be opened—\n\n(a) by direction of the Court of Disputed Returns; or\n\n(b) by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State, subject to such directions as he may receive from the Chief Electoral Officer, for the purpose of comparing the signature of any voter thereon with the signature purporting to be that of the same person on the Electoral Claim Card filed in his office, or for the purpose of instituting any authorized official inquiry.\n\n","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"Div 7","sectionType":"division","heading":"Scrutiny of Postal Ballot-papers.","content":"Division 7.—Scrutiny of Postal Ballot-papers.\n\nPreliminary and further scrutiny.\n\n68\\. The scrutiny of postal ballot-papers in a Senate election or a House of Representatives election shall be conducted as provided for in Part XII. of the Act, and, in so far as it is not so provided for, shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in the same manner as is provided by these regulations in relation to the scrutiny of absent voters’ ballot-papers:\n\nProvided that for the purpose of the scrutiny of postal ballot-papers any reference in these regulations, in relation to the scrutiny of absent voters’ ballot-papers, to the absent voters’ ballot-box shall be read as a reference to the postal ballot-box; any reference to a ballot-paper, or an absent voter’s ballot-paper, shall be read as a reference to a postal ballot-paper; and any reference to a declaration, or an absent voter’s declaration, shall be read as a reference to a postal vote certificate.\n\nPostal ballot-papers, &c., how dealt with.\n\n69\\. The postal ballot-papers and postal vote certificates shall be dealt with as nearly as practicable in the manner provided by Regulations 63 to 67 inclusive in relation to absent voters’ ballot-papers and absent voters’ declarations.\n\n","sortOrder":6},{"sectionNumber":"Div 8","sectionType":"division","heading":"Votes of Persons whose Names are not on Certified List of Voters or have been struck out of Certified List.","content":"Division 8—Votes of Persons whose Names are not on Certified List of Voters or have been struck out of Certified List.\n\nDeclarations under Section 121 of Act. Sec. 121.\n\n70. (1) The declaration to be made by a person claiming to vote pursuant to Section 121 of the Act on the ground that his name has been omitted from, or struck out of, the Certified List of Voters owing to an error of an officer or a mistake of fact shall be in accordance with Form 31. \n\n(2) The declaration may be printed on the back of an envelope addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division in respect of which the elector claims to vote, or may be attached by gum or other adhesive substance to such envelope.\n\nRecord to be made by Presiding Officer.\n\n71\\. The Presiding Officer shall make a record of the name and other particulars of each person who votes at his polling booth under the provisions of Section 121 of the Act, and, at the close of the poll, shall forward the record, duly certified, under seal, to the Assistant Returning Officer.\n\nAction by Assistant Returning Officer.\n\n72\\. The Assistant Returning Officer, on receipt from a Presiding Officer of a ballot-box containing ballot-papers enclosed in envelopes bearing declarations of persons who have voted, pursuant to Section 121 of the Act, shall take the following action:—\n\n(a) check the number of such envelopes with the number appearing in the Presiding Officer’s record, preserve a note thereof, and report any discrepancy to his Divisional Returning Officer;\n\n(b) place the envelopes in a parcel addressed to his Divisional Returning Officer, indorse on the parcel the total number of envelopes contained therein, and add his signature and the date;\n\n(c) place the parcel in an outer cover, fully addressed to his Divisional Returning Officer, fasten and seal the cover, and forthwith transmit the package by registered post to his Divisional Returning Officer;\n\n(d) immediately advise, by telegraph or by such other expeditious means as may be directed, his Divisional Returning Officer of the total number of such envelopes so forwarded to him.\n\nScrutiny of votes cast under Section 121 of Act. Sec. 121.\n\n73\\. The provisions of Regulations 57 to 67 inclusive shall apply as nearly as practicable to the receipt, scrutiny, parcelling, and preservation of ballot-papers and envelopes bearing declarations used for the purposes of voting under Section 121 of the Act:\n\nProvided that for the purpose of the scrutiny of ballot-papers and envelopes bearing declarations used for the purposes of voting under section 121 of the Act, any reference in these regulations to a ballot-paper, an absent voter’s ballot-paper, an absent voter’s declaration, or an absent voter’s ballot-box, shall be read as a reference to a ballot-paper, declaration, or ballot-box, as the case requires, used for the purposes of voting under section 121 of the Act, or for the receipt and scrutiny of votes cast under that section.\n\n","sortOrder":7},{"sectionNumber":"Div 9","sectionType":"division","heading":"Scrutiny by Assistant Returning Officer.","content":"Division 9.—Scrutiny by Assistant Returning Officer.\n\nScrutiny by Assistant Returning Officer. Secs. 135 and 136.\n\n74. (1) At the scrutiny the Assistant Returning Officer shall, on receipt, from a Presiding Officer, of a ballot-box, forthwith exhibit it for the inspection of the scrutineers present, and shall record the condition in which the box is received, and shall then, in the presence of the scrutineers present, open the ballot-box, and, subject to the action prescribed in Regulations 56 and 72, take out and count the ballot-papers (but not inspect the votes), and record the total number of the ballot-papers taken therefrom, and thus check the Statement of the Presiding Officer.\n\n(2) If the total number of ballot-papers taken from a ballot-box is not less than one hundred, the votes may immediately be inspected and counted.\n\n(3) If the total number of ballot-papers taken from a ballot-box is less than one hundred, they shall be placed in a locked and sealed ballot-box, called a reserve ballot-box, which has been previously exhibited to the scrutineers, and the counting of the votes on those ballot-papers shall be deferred. \n\n(4) The ballot-papers in the reserve ballot-box may be taken out and counted when all the ballot-papers taken from any two or more ballot-boxes and placed in the reserve ballot-box exceed one hundred, but where no more ballot-boxes are to be received at the counting centre, the ballot-papers may be taken out and counted, notwithstanding that there are less than one hundred ballot-papers in the reserve ballot-box.\n\n","sortOrder":8},{"sectionNumber":"Div 10","sectionType":"division","heading":"Recount of Ballot-papers.","content":"Division 10.—Recount of Ballot-papers.\n\nRecount. Secs. 187 and 138.\n\n75\\. (1) Before proceeding to recount any ballot-papers, the Divisional Returning Officer shall send to each candidate notice of the time and place fixed for the recount.\n\n(2) The Divisional Returning Officer shall, at the time and place fixed for the recount, in the presence of the scrutineer or scrutineers in attendance and of an officer of the Commonwealth Public Service, open every sealed parcel of ballot-papers to be recounted, and shall count the votes therein.\n\n(3) Each parcel of ballot-papers to be recounted shall be opened separately without destroying or rendering illegible any indorsements on the parcel and every care shall be taken to prevent the ballot-papers in the parcel from being mixed with the ballot-papers in any other parcel.\n\n(4) After a parcel has been opened and the votes therein counted, the ballot-papers shall be replaced in their original cover, which shall be resealed, refastened, and then placed in a new cover, which shall be sealed and fastened, and an indorsement shall be made thereon of the fact and date of the recount, and shall be signed by the Divisional Returning Officer and such persons authorized to be present at the recount as choose to add their signatures.\n\n(5) When any ballot-papers are, at a recount, reserved for the decision of the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State, the Divisional Returning Officer shall, in the presence of the scrutineer or scrutineers in attendance, place the ballot-papers in a properly fastened and sealed parcel bearing his signature and the signature or signatures of the scrutineer or scrutineers, together with an indorsement setting forth the number of ballot-papers contained therein, the name of the Division, and the date; and shall place the parcel in a fastened and sealed outer cover fully addressed to the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State, and forthwith transmit the parcel to him by registered post.\n\n(6) On receipt of the parcel, the Commonwealth Electoral Officer shall, in the presence of an officer of the Commonwealth Public Service, and, if any candidate so desires, in the presence of a person appointed by such candidate, open the parcel and scrutinize the ballot-papers and shall mark each ballot-paper “Admitted,” or “Rejected,” according to his decision to admit or reject such ballot-paper.\n\n(7) When the Commonwealth Electoral Officer has given his decision on the ballot-papers, he shall restore them to their original cover, refasten and reseal the cover, and indorse thereon—\n\n(a) the number of ballot-papers contained therein;\n\n(b) a statement that such ballot-papers have been the subject of decision by him;\n\n(c) his signature and the date;\n\nand shall request the persons in whose presence he scrutinized the ballot-papers to add their signatures, and shall then place the parcel in a new cover, which he shall fasten, seal and forthwith return by registered post to the Divisional Returning Officer. \n\n(8) The Commonwealth Electoral Officer shall advise the Divisional Returning Officer, in writing, as to the number of ballot-papers admitted or rejected by him, and the Commonwealth Electoral Officer’s decision shall be accepted by the Divisional Returning Officer in completing his recount of the ballot-papers.\n\n(9) The receipt of every parcel of ballot-papers shall be acknowledged to writing by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer and the Divisional Returning Officer respectively.\n\nDivision—11.—Miscellaneous.\n\nPreservation of documents. Sec. 218.\n\n76\\. All ballot-papers, certified copies of the Roll for the Division, Lists of Voters, Forms of Declaration, and Postal Vote Certificates used at an election or referendum shall, after the scrutiny is completed, be sealed up by the officer who conducted the scrutiny. Each Assistant Returning Officer shall transmit, in properly indorsed fastened and sealed parcels, all ballot-papers scrutinized by him and all certified lists of voters used within that portion of the Division in which he exercises his powers, to the Divisional Retailing Officer for the Division, who shall be responsible for the safe custody of these documents until the authority of the Chief Electoral Officer has been obtained for their destruction.\n\nAuthorized official inquiry.\n\n77\\. (1) For the purposes of any authorized official inquiry the Divisional Returning Officer may, if so directed by the Chief Electoral Officer, and in accordance with the instructions of the Chief Electoral Officer, open any parcel containing any certified list of voters used in his Division, or any certified copy of the Roll for the Division used at the scrutiny of absent votes, or at the scrutiny of postal votes, and may take out and examine the certified list or certified copy of the Roll and take a copy thereof; and shall then forthwith replace the certified list or certified copy of the Roll in a parcel and fasten, seal, and indorse it as required by the Chief Electoral Officer.\n\n(2) The Divisional Returning Officer shall not mark, alter, or in any way deface, or permit any other person to mark, alter, or deface, any list or copy of a Roll so taken out, and shall be responsible for every such list or copy of a Roll being replaced in the same condition as when it was taken out.\n\nFee for inspection of candidate’s return. See. 151.\n\n78\\. The fee to be paid for an inspection of the return, and the receipted bills of particulars, of a candidate’s electoral expenses shall be 2s. 6d.\n\nReturn under s. 152 of Act. Sec. 152.\n\n79\\. (1) The return to be made by a trades union, registered or unregistered, organization, association, league, body of persons, or person, under Section 152 of the Act shall be in accordance with Form 32.\n\n(2) Every return filed in pursuance of Section 152 of the Act shall be open to public inspection during ordinary office hours, on payment of a fee of One shilling.\n\nNotice under s. 152 (8) of Act. Sec. 152.\n\n80\\. The notice by the Chief Electoral Officer under Section 152 (8) of the Act may be in accordance with Form 33.\n\nReturn under s. 153 of Act. Sec. 153.\n\n81\\. (1) The return to be made by the proprietor or publisher of a newspaper under Section 153 of the Act shall be in accordance with Form 34.\n\n(2) Every return filed in pursuance of Section 153 of the Act shall be open to public inspection during ordinary office hours on payment of a fee of One shilling.\n\nOffence for which no penalty prescribed.\n\n82\\. Any person who is convicted of an offence against these Regulations for which no penalty is provided shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Two pounds.\n\nC.18902.—2 \n\nUse of forms which are not prescribed.\n\n83\\. Where any action is required to be taken under the Act or these Regulations by an officer, and no form is prescribed for use in connexion with such action, the officer may use such form as is approved by the Chief Electoral Officer.\n\nPart IV.—Referendum.\n\nOfficial mark.\n\n84\\. The official mark for the authentication of referendum ballot-papers shall be the official mark prescribed for electoral ballot-papers.\n\nReferendum in Divisions where no electoral poll taken.\n\n85. When the day fixed for the taking of the votes of the electors for the purposes of a referendum is the same as that fixed for the polling at a Senate election or a general election for the House of Representatives, and no poll is taken in any particular Division for the purposes of the election—\n\n(a) the forms in these Regulations may be modified so far as is necessary to enable them to apply, as regards that Division, to the referendum only, and\n\n(b) any forms under these Regulations may, as regards that Division be deemed to refer to the referendum only.\n\nDestruction of ballot-papers.\n\n86. When the validity of any referendum can no longer be questioned the Chief Electoral Officer may, subject to the provisions of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act in force for the time being, authorize the destruction of the ballot-papers used for voting at the referendum.\n\nReferendum ballot-paper.\n\n87\\. (1) The form of ballot-paper to be used by an elector, other than an elector voting as an absent voter, for the purpose of voting at a referendum in respect of one proposed law, may be in accordance with Form C in the Schedule (first occurring).\n\n(2) Where two or more proposed laws are submitted to the electors on the same day under the provisions of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act in force for the time being, the ballot-papers relating to any two or more of those proposed laws, to be used by an elector voting otherwise than as an absent voter, may be included in one special form of ballot-paper, which may be in accordance with Form C in the Schedule (second occurring).\n\nReturn by trade union, organization, &c.\n\n88. (1) The return to be made by a trades union, registered or unregistered, organization, association, league, body of persons, or person, under Section 35 of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act shall be in accordance with Form 35.\n\n(2) Every return filed in pursuance of Section 35 of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act shall be open to public inspection during ordinary office hours, on payment of a fee of One shilling.\n\nNotice to trade unions, &c., requiring return.\n\n89. The notice by the Chief Electoral Officer under Section 35 (9) of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act may be in accordance with Form 36.\n\nReturn by newspaper proprietors.\n\n90\\. (1) The return to be made by the proprietor or publisher of a newspaper under Section 36 of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act shall be in accordance with Form 37.\n\n(2) Every return filed in pursuance of Section 36 of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act shall be open to public inspection during ordinary office hours, on payment of a fee of One shilling. \n\nTHE SCHEDULE.\n\nForm 1 Regulation 6.\n\n19 .\n\nElectoral Roll.\n\nDivision of \\[here insert name of Division\\].\n\nRoll of Electors for the Subdivision of \\[here insert name of Subdivision\\].\n\nNo., Name in Full, Place of Living, Occupation, and Sex of each Elector.\n\n\\[Here follow Names, &c.\\]\n\nFootnote—M signifies Male, F signifies Female.\n\nForm 2. Regulation 8 (1).\n\nThis form may be used only by a qualified person, not under the age of 21 years, (a) when claiming enrolment or transfer of enrolment, or (b) when notifying a change of address within the same subdivision or applying for the correction of any particulars of an existing enrolment.\n\nElectoral Claim.\n\nTo the Electoral Registrar for the Subdivision of—\n\nDivision of— State of—\n\n1\\. I am an inhabitant of Australia and have lived therein for six months continuously.\n\n2\\. I am a natural-born or naturalized subject of the King, am not under the age of 21 years, and am qualified to be enrolled as an elector.\n\n3\\. I claim to have my name and particulars for enrolment, as set out on the back hereof, placed on the Electoral Roll for the Subdivision of in which I now live and have lived for a period of not less than one month immediately preceding the date of this Claim.\n\n4\\. My name is at present enrolled for the Subdivision of the Division of in respect of the following address in that Subdivision, namely:—\n\n\\[If NOT already enrolled, strike out paragraph 4\\]\n\nI declare that the whole of the statements made in this Claim (including those set forth on the back hereof) are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.\n\nDated the day of 19\n\nI, the undersigned, being an elector or person qualified to be an elector of the Commonwealth, certify that I have seen the above-named Claimant sign the above Claim, and that I either know the statements contained in the Claim to be true or have satisfied myself by inquiry of the Claimant or otherwise that the said statements are true.\n\n(Penalty on witness for failure to fully comply with this requirement—£50.)\n\nPersonal Signature of Witness in own handwriting—\n\nPlace of living—\n\nThe signature of the Claimant must be his personal signature. If unable to sign his name in his own handwriting, he may make his mark as his signature, but such signature must be made in the presence of the person who signs as witness.\n\nn.b.—An elector may only have his name placed upon the Roll for the Subdivision in which he lives. A map and description of the boundaries of the Subdivision and a notification relating to qualifications and disqualifications for enrolment may be inspected at, and Electoral Forms for public use may be obtained from, any Post Office. \n\nRegulation 8 (1)—continued.\n\n

Particulars for Enrolment.

\"\"Surname—

Christian Names—

(in full).

Place of Living—

(Full address, including name and street number, if any, of habitation).

Occupation—

Sex—

Date and Year of Birth—

Place of Birth—

(Including Country).

Former Surname*—

\n```\n\n\\* To be filled in only in the case of a woman who has changed her name by marriage since her last enrolment.\n\nPersonal Signature of Claimant\\*—\n\n![](image.002.png)\n\nForm 2a. Regulation 8 (2).\n\nThis form may be used only by a qualified person when claiming enrolment or transfer of enrolment on the ground that he or she is or has been a Member of the Forces\\*, or by such person (a) when notifying a change of address within the same subdivision, or (b) when applying for the correction of any particulars of an existing enrolment.\n\nElectoral Claim.\n\nTo the Electoral Registrar for the Subdivision of—\n\nDivision of— State of—\n\n1\\. I am an inhabitant of Australia and have lived therein for six months continuously.\n\n2\\. I am a natural-born or naturalized subject of the King, and am or have been a Member of the Forces\\* within the meaning of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Act 1917, and am qualified to be enrolled as an elector.\n\n3\\. I claim to have my name and particulars for enrolment, as set out on the back hereof, placed on the Electoral Roll for the Subdivision of in which I now live and have lived for a period of not less than one month immediately preceding the date of this Claim.\n\n4\\. My name is at present enrolled for the Subdivision of the Division of in respect of the following address in that Subdivision, namely:—\n\n\\[If NOT already enrolled, strike out paragraph 4.\\]\n\nI declare that the whole of the statements made in this Claim (including those set forth on the back hereof) are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.\n\nDated the day of 19\n\nI, the undersigned, being an elector or person qualified to be an elector of the Commonwealth, certify that I have seen the above-named Claimant sign the above Claim, and that I either know the statements contained in the Claim to be true or have satisfied myself by inquiry of the Claimant or otherwise that the said statements are true.\n\n(Penalty on witness for failure to fully comply with this requirement—£50.)\n\nPersonal Signature of Witness in own handwriting—\n\nPlace of living—\n\nThe signature of the Claimant must be his personal signature. If unable to sign his name in his own handwriting, he may make his mark as his signature, but such signature must be made in the presence of the person who signs as witness.\n\nN.B.—An elector may only have his name placed upon the Roll for the Subdivision in which he lives. A map and description of the boundaries of the Subdivision and a notification relating to qualifications and disqualifications for enrolment may be inspected at, and Electoral Forms for public use may be obtained from, any Post Office.\n\n\\*For definition see back hereof. \n\nRegulation 8 (2)—continued.\n\n

Particulars for Enrolment

\"\"Surname—

Christian Names—

(in full).

Place of living—

(Full address, including name and street number, if any, of habitation).

Occupation—

Sex—

Date and Year of Birth—

Place of Birth—

(Including Country).

\n```\n\nMilitary or Naval Rank or Designation, and Unit in which claimant is serving, or, if discharged, in which he last served, and Regimental number, if any.\n\n| The particulars within this space are to be filled in by the Electoral Registrar.Received (date)—Registered (date)—Acknowledged (date)—Initials of Registrar— |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n\nA Member of the Forces within the meaning of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Act 1917 is a person who is or has been a member of the Commonwealth Naval or Military Forces enlisted or appointed for active service outside Australia or on a ship of war, and a person engaged as a munition or other worker under agreement with the Commonwealth Government for service outside Australia, and includes a person who is or has been a member of the Army Medical Corps Nursing Service who is accepted or appointed by the Director-General of Medical Services for service outside Australia.\n\nForm 3. Regulation 9 (1).\n\nElectoral Division of— Subdivision of—\n\nAcknowledgment and Intimation to Elector in Relation to Enrolment, Transfer of Enrolment, or Correction or Alteration of Enrolment.\n\nTo—\n\n\\*Your name has been enrolled for the abovenamed Subdivision pursuant to your claim dated\n\n\\*Your change of place of living within the abovenamed Subdivision as set out in your notification dated has been noted in the Roll.\n\n\\*Your enrolment for the abovenamed Subdivision has been corrected pursuant to your notification dated\n\nYou are informed, for your future guidance, that if you change your place of living from the address in the Subdivision for which you are enrolled to another address in the same Subdivision and fail within 21 days after making such change to notify the Electoral Registrar for the Subdivision of your new address, in the prescribed form, or that if you change your place of living to any other Subdivision, and after you have lived in that Subdivision for a period of one month fail within the next ensuing 21 days to send or deliver to the Electoral Registrar for the Subdivision a claim for transfer of enrolment in the prescribed form, such failure will render you liable, under the provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, to a penalty not exceeding £2 (Two pounds).\n\nNote.—An elector who is only temporarily absent from his place of living, although the period of such absence may exceed one month, is not thereby deemed to have changed his place of living for the purposes of transfer of enrolment, or change of address on the Roll.\n\n\\* The Registrar will strike out whichever of these paragraphs are not applicable to the case.\n\n \n\nForm 4. Regulation 10.\n\nNotification of Transfer of Enrolment.\n\nTo the Electoral Registrar for the Subdivision of— Division of—\n\nYou are requested to remove from the Roll for the abovementioned Subdivision the name of each elector set out in Column 1 herein, on the ground that the elector has now been enrolled by me, in pursuance of a claim for transfer of enrolment, for the Subdivision specified in Column 2 opposite the elector’s name.\n\n

(1)

Particulars appearing in claim for transfer received by me.

(2)

Subdivision for which Elector has now been enrolled.

(3)

Address of Elector in Subdivision Roll kept by you as set out in Paragraph 4 of claim for transfer received by me.

(4)

(To be filled in by Registrar to whom notification addressed.)

Surname.

Christian Names (in full).

Occupation.

Sex.

Name removed (date).

Elector’s Number on Roll (if name in print) or Date of Enrolment (if name in manuscript).

Remarks

Electoral Registrar for the Subdivision (or Subdivisions) specified in Column 2.

Electoral Division of—

Dated the day of 19 .

Received (date)—

Acted upon and forwarded to Divisional Returning Officer (date)—

Signature of Registrar—

\n```\n\nForm 5. Regulation 11 (2).\n\nNotification to Claimant of Reference of Electoral Claim.\n\nTo—\n\nAs I am not satisfied that you are entitled to be enrolled in pursuance of your claim, dated the , I am referring the claim to the Divisional Returning Officer for his decision.\n\nUpon receipt of the Divisional Returning Officer’s decision you will be duly notified in accordance therewith.\n\n \n\nForm 6. Regulation 12 (2).\n\nNotification to Claimant of Rejection of Electoral Claim.\n\nTo—\n\nYou are hereby notified that your claim to be enrolled on the Electoral Roll for the Subdivision of the abovenamed Division has been rejected by the Divisional Returning Officer on the ground that \\[here specify reason for rejection\\].\n\nYou are entitled, at any time within one calendar month after the receipt of this notification, to appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction for an order directing that your name may be added to the Roll.\n\nForm 7. Regulation 13.\n\nNotification to Claimant of Formal Defect in Electoral Claim.\n\nTo—\n\nYour claim to be enrolled on the Electoral Roll for the Subdivision of the abovenamed Division is defective by reason of \\[here set out nature of defect\\].\n\n\\*The Claim is forwarded herewith for completion or correction, and return to me without delay.\n\n\\*Please complete the accompanying fresh form of Claim and return it to me without delay.\n\n\\* The Registrar will strike out whichever of these paragraphs is not applicable to the case.\n\n \n\nForm 8. Regulation 14.\n\nThe Commonwealth Electoral Act. Consecutive No\n\nState of\n\nCertificate authorizing Removal of Names of Electors From Roll.\n\nTo the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of\n\nI certify that each elector named in Column (1) has ceased to be qualified for enrolment on the Roll for the Subdivision specified in Column (2) opposite his name, and has secured enrolment for the Subdivision specified in Column (3) opposite his name.\n\n

(1)

Surname, Christian Names, Place of Living, Occupation and Sex.

(2)

Subdivision for which Elector has ceased to be entitled to be enrolled.

(3)

Subdivision and Division for which Elector has now been enrolled.

(4)

(To be filled in by Registrar.)

Name removed (date).

Form 9 issued (date).

Elector’s Number on Roll (if name in print) or Date of Enrolment (if name in manuscript).

Remarks.

Subdivision.

Division.

Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State of

Date / / 19 .

Received (date)—

Acted upon and returned to Divisional Returning Officer (date)—

Signature of Registrar—

\n```\n\nTo the Electoral Registrar for the Subdivision or Subdivisions specified in Column (2) above.\n\nYou are directed to remove the name of each of the abovenamed electors from the Roll on which it appears, as specified in Column (2) and to forthwith notify the elector in Form 9. You will specify in Column (4) the action taken by you, and return this form to me for transmission to the Commonwealth Electoral Officer.\n\nDivisional Returning Officer.\n\nDate / /19 .\n\n \n\nForm 9. Regulation 15.\n\nState of\n\nNotification of Removal of Name from Roll under the Provisions of Section 47 (1) (h) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.\n\nTo\n\n\\[The full Christian names and surname to be inserted\\].\n\n\\[as appearing on the Roll for the Subdivision from which the name has been removed\\].\n\nYour name has been removed from the Electoral Roll for the Subdivision of the Division of on the ground that you have changed your place of living and have secured enrolment for the Subdivision of the Division of\n\nIf you desire to make any representations in regard to this matter, your communication may be written in the space provided for the purpose at the foot of this form, and should be sent to the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State of\n\n| Electoral Registrar for the Subdivision ofDate / / 19 . |\n| ------------------------------------------------------- |\n\n![](image.004.png)\n\nReply (if any).\n\nPersonal Signature of Elector\n\nPresent place of living\n\nWitness to Signature\n\n(Being an elector or person qualified to be an elector).\n\nOccupation\n\nPlace of living\n\nForm 10. Regulation 16.\n\nNotification of Change of Enrolment consequent upon Alteration of Subdivision\n\nBoundaries.\n\nTo—\n\nYou are hereby informed that your name has in accordance with the provisions of Section 28 of the Act been removed from the Roll for the\n\nSubdivision of the Electoral Division of and has been placed on the Roll for the Subdivision of the Electoral Division of\n\nC.18902.—3. \n\nForm 11. Regulation 17.\n\n\\[Form to be used by the Electoral Registrar when notifying the Divisional Returning Officer of the names of persons who have failed to comply with the requirements of the Commonwealth Electoral Act in relation to compulsory enrolment.\\]\n\nTo the Divisional Returning Officer for the Electoral Division of—\n\nI hereby declare that I have made due inquiry and am satisfied that the persons specified in the Schedule hereto are entitled to enrolment under the Commonwealth Electoral Act and Regulations; that such persons have their places of living in the Subdivision, and have lived therein for a period of one month; that a period of twenty-one days has elapsed since such persons became entitled to enrolment, and that they have failed to comply with the requirements of the law in relation to the compulsory enrolment of electors.\n\nSchedule.\n\nList of Persons entitled to Enrolment for the Subdivision who after the lapse of Twenty-one Days have failed to comply with the requirements of the Law in relation to Compulsory Enrolment.\n\n| Surname. | Christian Names in full. | Place of Living. | Occupation. | Sex. | Remarks. |\n| -------- | ------------------------ | ---------------- | ----------- | ---- | -------- |\n| | | | | | |\n\nForm 12. Regulation 18.\n\nNotification to a Person alleged to have failed to comply with the Requirements of Section 42 \\[here insert number of sub-section\\] of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.\n\nTo\n\nYou are hereby notified that from information laid before me, it would appear that on the day of 19 , at in the said State \\[here insert nature of contravention alleged\\], and I do therefore allege that you have contravened the provisions of Section 42 \\[here insert number of sub-section\\] of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.\n\nA contravention of the section mentioned is punishable under the Commonwealth Electoral Act by a penalty not exceeding ten shillings for a first offence and not exceeding two pounds for any subsequent offence. \n\nForm 12—continued.\n\nYou have the option of having the alleged contravention dealt with by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State (thus avoiding costs of Court) or by a Court of Summary Jurisdiction.\n\nIf you desire to have the matter dealt with by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer, you must fill in and sign, in the presence of a Police, Stipendiary, or Special Magistrate, or a Justice of the Peace, or a Commissioner for taking Declarations or Affidavits, the form of consent at the foot of the Statutory Declaration attached, and send it or deliver it to me so as to reach me not later than the day of 19 .\n\nIf you desire to answer the allegation you may send or deliver to me, so as to reach me not later than the day of 19 , a statutory declaration in the attached form setting out any facts relevant to the matter.\n\nIf it be decided to proceed with the case and you have forwarded within the specified time your consent to the matter being dealt with by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer, your declaration will be considered by him. If you have not consented within the specified time to the matter being dealt with by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer your declaration will be forwarded to the Court by which your case is to be dealt with.\n\n| Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of |\n| ------------------------------------------------ |\n\nForm 13. Regulation 19.\n\nConsent of Person alleged to have failed to comply with the Requirements of Section 42 \\[here insert number of sub-section\\] of the Act to the matter being dealt with by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State.\n\nTo the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of\n\nI, of having received from you a notification alleging that I have contravened the provisions of Section 42 \\[here insert number of sub-section\\] of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, hereby consent to have the matter dealt with by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State, and I undertake to abide by his decision thereon, and to pay the amount of the penalty (if any) that he may impose.\n\n(Personal Signature)\n\n(Address)\n\n(Date) / /\n\nWitness—\n\nThis form must be signed in the presence of, and attested by, a Police, Stipendiary or Special Magistrate or a Justice of the Peace, or a Commissioner for taking Declarations or Affidavits.\n\n \n\nForm 14. Regulation 22.\n\nNotification of Penalty imposed by Commonwealth Electoral Offices for contravention of Section 42 \\[here insert number of sub-section\\] of Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.\n\nTo\n\nYou are informed that pursuant to your notification of consent dated the day of 19 , the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State has dealt with the matter of your contravention of Section 42 \\[here insert number of sub-section\\] of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and that he has imposed upon you a penalty of\n\nYou are hereby required to pay the amount to me not later than the day of 19 .\n\nThe amount may be paid at my office in cash or may be remitted to me by Postal Note or Money Order, made payable to the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of . Upon payment of the penalty an official receipt will be handed to you or forthwith sent to you by post.\n\nUnless you comply with the requirements of this notification within the time allowed herein, steps will be taken to recover the penalty in a court of summary jurisdiction.\n\nDivisional Returning Officer\n\nfor the Division of\n\n(Address)\n\n(Date)\n\nForm 15. Regulation 26 (1).\n\n\\[Form to be used by an Elector for the same Electoral Subdivision or by an Officer (not being a Registrar) when lodging an objection.\\]\n\nNotice of Objection.\n\nTo the Divisional Returning Officer for the Electoral Division of—\n\nI object to the name of\n\n| No. on Roll. | Surname. | Christian Names at full length. | Place of living as appearing on Roll. | Occupation. | Place of Abode for time being, if known to the objector. |\n| ------------ | -------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |\n| | | | | | |\n\nbeing retained on the Electoral Roll for the Subdivision of the Division of , on the ground that \\[here insert ground of objection\\].\n\n(Signature)—\n\n(Occupation)—\n\n(Address)—\n\n \n\nForm 16 Regulation 26 (2).\n\n\\[Form to be used by a Registrar when lodging objections to the retention of names on the Subdivision Roll kept by him.\\]\n\nElectoral Division of— Subdivision of—\n\nNotice of Objection.\n\nTo the Divisional Returning Officer\n\nI object to each undermentioned name being retained on the Electoral Roll for the abovenamed Subdivision on the ground \\[here insert ground of objection\\].\n\nRegistrar for the Subdivision of—\n\nDated day of 19 .\n\n

Person Objected to.

Place of Living as appearing on Roll.

Occupation.

Place of Abode for time being, if known to Registrar.

Registrar’s Initials.

No. on Roll

Surname.

Christian Names at full length.

\n```\n\nNote.—This form must be prepared in triplicate, one form retained by the Registrar and the other two furnished to the Divisional Returning Officer.\n\nIndorsement by Divisional Returning Offices.\n\n| (1) Notices of Objection posted by Divisional Returning Officer to persons objected to(2) Date of expiration of period allowed for answers to objections. (See Sec. 57)(3) Answers received from— | |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- |\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\nNotification to the Registrar for the Subdivision.\n\n(a) Objections sustained excepting as to the following names, viz.:—\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n(b) You are hereby directed to forthwith remove from the Roll for the Subdivision all the names appearing on the within list of objections, with the exception of those mentioned in the foregoing paragraph (a), in which cases the objections have not been sustained.\n\nDivisional Returning Officer for the Division of\n\nAll necessary action taken in accordance with the above direction.\n\nRegistrar for the Subdivision of—\n\n \n\nForm 17. Regulation 27.\n\nNotice of Objection to Person objected to on the Ground of Non-Residence.\n\nTo—\n\n\\[Here insert full christian names and surname, occupation, and place of abode for the time being, if known to the Divisional Returning Officer, or, if not so known, place of living as appearing on Roll.\\]\n\nNotice is hereby given that an objection has been lodged with me by \\[here insert the name and description of the objector\\] objecting to your name being retained on the Electoral Roll for the Subdivision of \\[here insert name of Subdivision\\] of this Division, on the ground that you do not live in the Subdivision and have not so lived for at least one month last past.\n\nYou are entitled at any time within twenty days from the posting of this notice to answer the objection either orally or in writing.\n\nIf you intend to answer the objection orally you should attend at my Office at \\[here insert address of office\\] between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. on any day other than a Saturday, or between the hours of 9 a.m. and 12 noon on a Saturday, before the expiration of twenty days from the posting of this notice.\n\nIf you claim that your place of living is still in the Subdivision, and you do not desire to attend at my office for the purpose of answering this objection orally, you should with the least delay, but before the expiration of twenty days from the posting of this notice—\n\n(a) complete, personally sign, and date the reply at the foot hereof in the presence of a witness; and\n\n(b) fold the notice so that the address “Commonwealth Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of ” shall be visible, and send or deliver the notice to me with reply attached.\n\nIf you have ceased to live in the Subdivision as alleged you need not reply to this objection.\n\nIf you answer the objection, notice of the decision on the objection will be sent to you.\n\nIf you fail to answer the objection within twenty days from the posting of this notice, the objection will be determined, and your name may be struck off the Roll, but no notice of the decision on the objection will be sent to you.\n\nPostal Address—\n\n![](image.004.png)\n\nReply.\n\n(To be completed only if the elector claims that his place of living is still in the Subdivision.)\n\n1\\. I am the Elector whose enrolment is objected to in this notice.\n\n2\\. My place of living is still in the Subdivision of \\[here insert name of Subdivision\\], for which I retain my qualification for enrolment.\n\nPersonal Signature of Elector—\n\n(To be made in presence of Witness.)\n\nAddress in Subdivision—\n\nWitness to Signature—\n\n(Being an Elector or person qualified to be an Elector.)\n\nPlace of Living—\n\n \n\nForm 18. Regulation 28.\n\nNotice of Objection to Person objected to on a Ground other than that of Non-residence.\n\nTo—\n\n\\[Here insert full christian names and surname, occupation, and place of abode for the time being, if known to the Divisional Returning Officer, or, if not so known, place of living as appearing on Roll.\\]\n\nNotice is hereby given that an objection has been lodged with me by \\[here insert the name and description of the objector\\] objecting to your name being retained on the Electoral Roll for the Subdivision of \\[here insert name of Subdivision\\] of this Division, on the following grounds, namely:—\\[Here insert grounds of objection.\\]\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\nYou are entitled at any time within twenty days from the posting of this notice to answer the objection either orally or in writing.\n\nIf you intend to answer the objection orally you should attend at my Office at \\[here insert address of office\\] between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. on any day other than a Saturday, or between the hours of 9 a.m. and 12 noon on a Saturday, before the expiration of twenty days from the posting of this notice.\n\nIf you claim that you are qualified for the enrolment objected to, and do not desire to attend at my office for the purpose of answering this objection orally, you should with the least delay, but before the expiration of twenty days from the posting of this notice—\n\n(a) complete, personally sign, and date the reply at the foot hereof in the presence of a witness; and\n\n(b) fold the notice so that the address “Commonwealth Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of ” shall be visible, and send or deliver the notice to me with reply attached.\n\nIf you are not qualified for the enrolment objected to, you need not reply to this objection.\n\nIf you answer the objection, notice of the decision on the objection will be sent to you.\n\nIf you fail to answer the objection within twenty days from the posting of this notice, the objection will be determined, and your name may be struck off the Roll, but no notice of the decision on the objection will be sent to you.\n\nPostal Address—\n\n \n\nForm 18—continued.\n\nReply.\n\n(To be completed only if the Elector claims that he is qualified for the enrolment objected to.)\n\nI am the Elector whose enrolment is objected to in this notice, and I claim that I am qualified for such enrolment.\n\nMy reasons for so claiming are as follow:—\n\n\\[Here set forth reasons relied upon as an answer to the objection.\\]\n\nPersonal Signature of Elector—\n\n(To be made in presence of Witness.\n\nAddress in Subdivision—\n\nWitness to Signature—\n\n(Being an Elector or person qualified to be an Elector.)\n\nPlace of Living—\n\nForm 19. Regulation 31.\n\nNotice of Determination of Objection.\n\nTo—\n\nNotice is hereby given that I have considered the objection lodged by \\[here set out the name of objector\\] to the retention of the name of \\[here set out name of person objected to\\] on the Electoral Roll for the Subdivision of the Division of— and have decided—\n\n(a) to remove the said name from the said Electoral Roll;\n\n(b) to dismiss the objection and to retain the said name on the said Electoral Roll.\n\n(Note.—Strike out sub-paragraph (a) or sub-paragraph (b) as the case requires.)\n\nIf aggrieved by this decision you may, at any time within one calendar month after the receipt of this notice, appeal against the decision to a court of summary jurisdiction\n\n \n\nForm 20. Regulation 33.\n\nDivision of \\[here insert name of Division if for the House of Representatives\\]—\n\nForm of Withdrawal by Candidate of Consent to Nomination.\n\n(Section 80 of Act.)\n\nTo the \\[here insert Commonwealth Electoral Officer in the case of a Senate Election or Divisional Returning Officer in the case of a House of Representatives Election\\].\n\nI \\[here insert Christian names, surname, place of residence, and occupation\\] do hereby withdraw my consent to nomination as \\[here insert a Senator or a Member of the House of Representatives, as the case may be\\], dated the day of 19 .\n\n\\[Personal signature of Candidate.\\]\n\nDated at \\[here insert place\\] the day of 19 .\n\nWitness—\n\nNote.—To be signed in the presence of the Officer with whom the nomination was lodged or of a justice of the peace.\n\nForm 21. Regulation 34.\n\nUndertaking to be Made by Officers and Scrutineers.\n\nI \\[here insert name, address, and occupation\\] do hereby promise and undertake that I will faithfully perform the duties of \\[here insert name of office held by the person signing undertaking\\] to the best of my understanding and ability, and that I will not directly or indirectly attempt to influence the vote of any elector, or, except by recording my vote as allowed by law, the result of any election or referendum, and that I will not disclose any knowledge officially acquired by me touching the vote of any elector, except in reply to a question which I am legally bound to answer.\n\nSignature—\n\nWitness to signature—\n\n \n\nForm 22. Regulation 40.\n\nThis application should he made and sent, after the issue of the Writ for the election to which it relates and before polling day, to the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division for which the elector is enrolled; but if the elector has reason to believe that it may not in the ordinary course of post reach that officer so as to enable him to send a Postal Vote Certificate and a Postal Ballot-paper to the elector in time to permit of his voting at the election, the application may, for purposes of expedition, be made and sent to some other Divisional Returning Officer.\n\nIn order that a Postal Ballot-paper may be admitted to the scrutiny the envelope in which it is contained must be received, prior to the close of the Poll, by the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division in respect of which the elector claims to vote.\n\n

Commonwealth of Australia.

Number..............

Postal Vote Certificate and Postal Ballot-paper

The Commonwealth Electoral Act

issued / / 19 . Initials of the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of..........

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\n```\n\nApplication for a Postal Vote Certificate and a Postal Ballot-paper or Postal Ballot-papers.\n\n(1) Here insert name of Division to which application is being sent.\n\n(2) Here insert christian names, surname, place of living, and occupation as appearing on the Roll.\n\n(3) Here insert name of Subdivision for which enrolled.\n\n(4) Here insert name of Division for which enrolled.\n\nTo the Divisional Returning Officer for the Electoral Division of (1)\n\nI, (2) , hereby apply for a Postal Vote certificate and a postal Ballot-paper or postal Ballot-papers to enable me to vote by post at the forthcoming Senate election or House of Representatives Election or both, as the case requires.\n\nI declare\n\n(1) That I am an elector enrolled on the Electoral Roll for the (3) Subdivision of the Division of (4)\n\n(2) That the ground on which I apply to vote by post is—\n\n(a) that I will not throughout the hours of polling on polling day be within ten miles by the nearest practicable route of any polling booth open in the Commonwealth for the purposes of an election;\n\n(b) that I will throughout the hours of polling on polling day be travelling under conditions which will preclude me from attending at any polling booth to vote;\n\n(c) that I am seriously ill or infirm, and by reason of such illness or infirmity will be precluded from attending at any polling booth to vote;\n\n(d) that I will, by approaching maternity, be precluded from attending at any polling booth to vote.\n\nNote.—The elector will strike out any of the above grounds which do not apply to his or her particular case. \n\nForm 22—continued.\n\nAn elector shall not make, and a person shall not induce an elector to make, any false statement in an application for a postal vote certificate and a postal ballot-paper or postal ballot-papers, or in the declaration contained in such application.\n\nI request that a postal vote certificate and a postal ballot-paper, or postal ballot-papers (as the case requires), may be forwarded to me at the following address:—\n\n…………………………………………………………………\n\n…………………………………………………………………\n\n| Signed by the elector in his own handwriting in my presence—(Signature of Authorized Witness, in own handwriting)—(Title under which witness acts as Authorized Witness—) | Signature of Elector (in own handwriting)— |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |\n\nDated at— the day of 19 .\n\nThe following persons are authorized witnesses, namely:—All Commonwealth Divisional Returning Officers, Assistant Returning Officers, and officers of the Public Service of the Commonwealth permanently employed in the office of any Commonwealth Electoral Officer of a State or Divisional Returning Officer; all Commonwealth Electoral Registrars; all Postmasters or Postmistresses or postal officials in charge of post offices: all Police or Stipendiary or Special Magistrates of the Commonwealth or of a State; all Justices of the Peace; all Head Teachers in the employment of a State Education Department; all officers of the Department of Trade and Customs; all members of the Police Force of the Commonwealth or of a State; all Mining Wardens and Mining Wardens’ Clerks in the Public Service of a State; all legally qualified Medical Practitioners; all Officers in charge of Quarantine Stations; all Officers in charge of Lighthouses; all Pilots in the service of the Commonwealth or of a State, or of any local governing body; all Telegraph Line Repairers permanently employed in the Public Service of the Commonwealth, who are in charge of working parties; all Railway Stationmasters and Night Officers in charge who are permanently employed in the Railway Service of the Commonwealth or of a State; all Superintendents of Mercantile Marine and their Deputies while permanently employed in the Public Service of the Commonwealth or of a State.\n\nNo person who is a candidate at any election shall be an authorized witness at that election.\n\nObligations of Authorized Witnesses.\n\nAn authorized witness shall not witness the signature of any elector to an application for a postal vote certificate and a postal ballot-paper unless—\n\n(a) he has satisfied himself as to the identity of the applicant;\n\n(b) he has seen the applicant sign the application in his (the applicant’s) own handwriting; and\n\n(c) he knows that the statements contained in the application are true, or has satisfied himself by inquiry from the applicant or otherwise that the statements contained in the application are true.\n\nAn authorized witness shall not persuade or induce, or associate himself with any person in persuading or inducing, any person to make application for a postal vote certificate and postal ballot-paper.\n\nThe authorized witness shall sign his name in his own handwriting on the application in the space provided for the purpose, and shall add the title under which he acts as an authorized witness, and the date.\n\ns\n\n \n\nForm 23. Regulation 41.\n\nCommonwealth of Australia. No.\n\nPostal Vote Certificate.\n\nI hereby certify that of is entitled to vote by post (subject to the provisions of section 96 of the Act), in respect of the Division of State of at the Senate election or House of Representatives election (or both, as the case requires), to be held on Saturday, the day of 19 .\n\nDivisional Returning Officer for the Electoral Division of\n\n| Signed by the Voter in his own handwriting in my presence—Signature of Authorized Witness (in his own handwriting)—Title under which Witness acts as Authorized Witness— | Signature of Voter (in his own hand writing)— |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------- |\n\nDate 19 .\n\nAuthorized Witnesses.—The following persons are authorized witnesses, namely:—All Commonwealth Divisional Returning Officers, Assistant Returning Officers, and officers of the Public Service of the Commonwealth permanently employed in the office of any Commonwealth Electoral Officer of a State or Divisional Returning Officer; all Commonwealth Electoral Registrars; all Postmasters or Postmistresses or postal officials in charge of post offices; all Police or Stipendiary or Special Magistrates of the Commonwealth or of a State; all Justices of the Peace; all Head Teachers in the employment of a State Education Department; all officers of the Department of Trade and Customs; all members of the Police Force of the Commonwealth or of a State; all Mining Wardens and Mining Wardens’ Clerks in the Public Service of a State; all legally qualified Medical Practitioners; all Officers in charge of Quarantine Stations; all Officers in charge of Lighthouses; all Pilots in the service of the Commonwealth or of a State, or of any local governing body; all Telegraph Line Repairers permanently employed in the Public Service of the Commonwealth, who are in charge of working parties; all Railway Stationmasters and Night Officers in charge who are permanently employed in the Railway Service of the Commonwealth or of a State; all Superintendents of Mercantile Marine and their deputies while permanently employed in the Public Service of the Commonwealth or of a State.\n\nNo person who is a candidate at any election shall be an authorized witness at that election.\n\nNotes.—(1) The attention of the Voter and Authorized Witness is specially directed to the necessity of strictly observing the instructions indorsed on the back of each postal ballot-paper, and to the fact that this envelope containing the postal ballot-paper or postal ballot-papers (after having been marked by the voter) must be forthwith posted or delivered to the Divisional Returning Officer to whom it is addressed, by the Voter, or by the person to whom it is entrusted by the Voter for the purpose of posting or delivery.\n\n(2) Any person to whom an envelope containing or purporting to contain a postal ballot-paper or postal ballot-papers is entrusted by a voter for the purpose or posting or delivery to a Divisional Returning Officer, and who fails to forthwith post or deliver the envelope, shall be guilty of an offence.\n\nForm 24. Regulation 42.\n\n\\[Front of Form,\\]\n\nElection of \\[here insert number\\] Senators.\n\nNote.—The elector must vote for the full number of candidates to be elected.\n\nPOSTAL BALLOT-PAPER.\n\nNote.—The elector should carefully read the directions for his guidance printed on the back of this ballot-paper, and in particular note that he must not mark his vote thereon until after he has first exhibited the ballot-paper (unmarked) to the authorized witness. \n\nForm 24—continued.\n\nDirections to Elector and Authorized Witness.\n\n(a) The elector shall exhibit his unmarked postal ballot-paper and his postal vote certificate to the authorized witness.\n\n(b) The elector shall then and there, in the presence of the authorized witness, sign his name in his own handwriting on the postal vote certificate, in the place provided for the signature of the voter.\n\n(c) The authorized witness shall then and there sign his name in his own handwriting on the postal vote certificate in the place provided for the signature of the authorized witness, and shall add the title under which he acts as an authorized witness and the date.\n\n(d) The elector shall then and there, in the presence of the authorized witness, but so that the authorized witness cannot see the vote, mark his vote on this ballot-paper by writing thereon in the spaces provided for the purpose the names of the candidates for whom he votes, and shall fold the ballot-paper so that the vote cannot be seen, and hand it so folded to the authorized witness.\n\n(e) The authorized witness shall then and there place the ballot-paper in the envelope addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer, fasten the envelope, and hand it to the voter, who shall forthwith post or deliver it, or cause it to be posted or delivered, to the Divisional Returning Officer.\n\n(f) If the elector’s sight is so impaired that he cannot vote without assistance, the authorized witness, if so requested by the elector, shall mark the elector’s vote on the ballot-paper in the presence of a witness, direct the witness that he must refrain from disclosing any knowledge of the vote of the elector, and shall then and there, fold the ballot-paper so that the vote cannot be seen, place the ballot-paper in the envelope addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer, fasten the envelope, and hand it to the voter, who shall forthwith post or deliver it, or cause it to be posted or delivered, to the Divisional Returning Officer.\n\nFurther Directions to Authorized Witness.\n\nThe authorized witness shall not, unless the elector’s sight is so impaired that he cannot vote without assistance, look at or make himself acquainted with the vote given by the elector, and, except as provided in paragraph (f) of the preceding Directions, shall not suffer or permit any person (other than the elector) to see or become acquainted with the elector’s vote, or to assist the elector to vote, or to interfere in any way with the elector in relation to his vote.\n\nEvery authorized witness shall—\n\n(a) comply with the preceding directions in so far as they are to be complied with on his part;\n\n(b) see that the preceding directions are complied with by every elector voting by post before him, and by every person present when the elector votes; and\n\n(c) refrain from disclosing any knowledge of the vote of any elector voting by post before him.\n\nDuty of Persons Present when an Elector Votes by Post.\n\nAny person present when an elector is before an authorized witness for the purpose of voting by post shall—\n\n(a) obey all directions of the authorized witness;\n\n(b) refrain from making any communication whatever to the elector in relation to his vote;\n\n(c) refrain from assisting the elector or in any manner interfering with him in relation to his vote;\n\n(d) except as provided in paragraph (f) of the Directions to Elector and Authorized Witness, refrain from looking at the elector’s vote or from doing anything whereby he might become acquainted with the elector’s vote.\n\nForm 24—continued.\n\nDuty of Person to whom an Envelope containing a Postal Ballot-paper is entrusted for Posting or Delivery.\n\nAny person to whom an envelope containing or purporting to contain a postal ballot-paper is entrusted by a voter for the purpose of posting or delivery to a Divisional Returning Officer, and who fails to forthwith post or deliver the envelope, shall be guilty of an offence.\n\nForm 25. Regulation 43.\n\nElection of One Member of the House of Representatives.\n\nPOSTAL BALLOT-PAPER.\n\nNote.—The elector should carefully read the directions for his guidance printed on the back of this ballot-paper, and in particular note that he must not mark his vote thereon until after he has first exhibited the ballot-paper (unmarked) to the’ authorized witness.\n\n……………………………………………………………………………………………………………\n\nDirections to Elector and Authorized Witness.\n\n(a) The elector shall exhibit his unmarked postal ballot-paper and his postal vote certificate to the authorized witness.\n\n(b) The elector shall then and there, in the presence of the authorized witness, sign his name in his own handwriting on the postal vote certificate, in the place provided for the signature of the voter.\n\n(c) The authorized witness shall then and there sign his name in his own handwriting on the postal vote certificate in the place provided for the signature of the authorized witness, and shall add the title under which he acts as an authorized witness and the date. \n\nForm 25—continued.\n\n(d) The elector shall then and there, in the presence of the authorized witness, but so that the authorized witness cannot see the vote, mark his vote on this ballot-paper by placing the number 1 in the square opposite the name of the candidate for whom he votes as his first preference; and must give contingent votes for all the remaining candidates by placing the numbers 2, 3, 4 (and so on, as the case requires), in the squares opposite their names, so as to indicate the order of his preference for them, and shall fold the ballot-paper so that the vote cannot be seen, and hand it so folded to the authorized witness.\n\n(e) The authorized witness shall then and there place the ballot-paper in the envelope addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer, fasten the envelope, and hand it to the voter, who shall forthwith post or deliver it, or cause it to be posted or delivered, to the Divisional Returning Officer.\n\n(f) If the elector’s sight is so impaired that he cannot vote without assistance, the authorized witness, if so requested by the elector, shall mark the elector’s vote on the ballot-paper in the presence of a witness, direct the witness that he must refrain from disclosing any knowledge of the vote of the elector, and shall then and there, fold the ballot-paper so that the vote cannot be seen, place the ballot-paper in the envelope addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer, fasten the envelope, and hand it to the voter, who shall forthwith post or deliver it, or cause it to be posted or delivered, to the Divisional Returning Officer.\n\nFurther Directions to Authorized Witness.\n\nThe authorized witness shall not, unless the elector’s sight is so impaired that he cannot vote without assistance, look at or make himself acquainted with the vote given by the elector, and, except as provided in paragraph (f) of the preceding Directions, shall not suffer or permit any person (other than the elector) to see or become acquainted with the elector’s vote, or to assist the elector to vote, or to interfere in any way with the elector in relation to his vote.\n\nEvery authorized witness shall—\n\n(a) comply with the preceding directions in so far as they are to be complied with on his part;\n\n(b) see that the preceding directions are complied with by every elector voting by post before him, and by every person present when the elector votes; and\n\n(c) refrain from disclosing any knowledge of the vote of any elector voting by post before him.\n\nDuty of Persons Present when an Elector Votes by Post.\n\nAny person present when an elector is before an authorized witness for the purpose of voting by post shall—\n\n(a ) obey all directions of the authorized witness;\n\n(b) refrain from making any communication whatever to the elector in relation to his vote;\n\n(c) refrain from assisting the elector or in any manner interfering with him in relation to his vote;\n\n(d) except as provided in paragraph (f) of the Directions to Elector and Authorized Witness, refrain from looking at the elector’s vote or from doing anything whereby he might become acquainted with the elector’s vote.\n\nDuty of Person to whom an Envelope containing a Postal Ballot-paper is entrusted for Posting or Delivery.\n\nAny person to whom an envelope containing or purporting to contain a postal ballot-paper is entrusted by a voter for the purpose of posting or delivery to a Divisional Returning Officer, and who fails to forthwith post or deliver the envelope, shall be guilty of an offence.\n\n \n\nForm 26. Regulation 49.\n\nCommonwealth, of Australia.\n\nAbsent Voter’s Declaration to be made on Polling Day by an Elector Voting at a Polling Place other than a Polling Place prescribed for the Subdivision for which he is enrolled.\n\nI declare that I am the person enrolled as—\n\n| Surname. | Christian Names at full length. | Place of Living (as appearing on Roll.) | Occupation. |\n| -------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------- |\n| | | | |\n\non the Electoral Roll for the Subdivision of the Electoral Division of , in the State of , that I have not been and shall not be to-day within the Subdivision for which I am enrolled under conditions which would permit of my voting at any polling place prescribed for that Subdivision and that I have not voted at this or any other polling place, or by post, in connexion with the election being held this day; and I promise and declare that if I am permitted to vote at this polling place as an absent voter I will not again vote in connexion with this election.\n\nI am aware that if I falsely personate or attempt to personate a by other person for the purpose of securing a ballot-paper to which I am not entitled, or wilfully make any false statement in this declaration, I will be prosecuted, and am liable to two years’ imprisonment.\n\nNote.—“Election” in this declaration means a Senate Election, or a House of Representatives Election, or any Referendum (held under the provisions of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act in force for the time being), or all of them, as the case requires.\n\nPersonal Signature of Elector.\n\nSigned before me the day of 19 , at polling place.\n\nPresiding Officer.\n\n1\\. This form of declaration must, after being filled up, be signed by the elector with his personal signature in the presence of the Presiding Officer, and then be completed and attested by the Presiding Officer.\n\n2\\. The Presiding Officer shall then initial and hand to the elector one ballot-paper for each election or referendum held on the date upon which this declaration is made.\n\n3\\. The elector will then forthwith—\n\n(i) retire alone to an unoccupied compartment of the polling booth and there, in private, mark his vote on each ballot-paper handed to him, in the manner directed thereon.\n\n(ii) fold each ballot-paper separately in such a manner as to conceal the vote marked thereon, and at once return the ballot-paper or ballot-papers (as the case requires) so folded, to the Presiding Officer before whom he made his declaration.\n\n4\\. The Presiding Officer will see that he receives from the Elector each ballot-paper duly folded, and, if necessary for purposes of identification, will request the Elector to again state his name, and then, without unfolding the ballot-paper, or ballot-papers, will forthwith, in the presence of the elector, enclose the ballot-paper or ballot-papers received from that elector, in the envelope bearing the declaration of the elector and addressed to the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division for which the elector declares that he is enrolled, securely fasten the envelope, and deposit it in the ballot-box.\n\n \n\nForm 27. Regulation 31.\n\nIt is the duty of the Presiding Officer, before issuing this ballot-paper to an elector, to fill in the name of the State for which the elector declares that he is enrolled and the names of all the Senate candidates for that State, if not already printed thereon.\n\nElection of \\[here insert number\\] Senators.\n\nThe elector should retire alone to an unoccupied compartment of the booth, and there, in private, mark his vote on this ballot-paper by making a cross in the Square opposite the name of each candidate for whom he votes, fold the ballot-paper so that the vote cannot be seen, and return it to the Presiding Officer before whom he made his declaration. The Presiding Officer will then, in the presence of the elector, without unfolding the ballot-paper, forthwith place it in the envelope bearing the declaration of the elector, securely fasten the envelope, and deposit it in the ballot-box. The elector must vote for the full number of candidates to be elected.\n\n![](image.007.png)\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n![](image.007.png)\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n![](image.007.png)\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n![](image.007.png)\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n![](image.007.png)\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n![](image.007.png)\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n \n\nForm 28. Regulation 52.\n\nIt is the duty of the Presiding Officer, before issuing this ballot-paper to an elector to fill in the name of the State and the name of the Division for which the elector declares that he is enrolled and the names of all the candidates for that Division, if not already printed thereon.\n\nElectoral Division of \\[here insert name of Division\\].\n\nElection of One Member of the House of Representatives.\n\nThe elector should retire alone to an unoccupied compartment of the booth, and there, in private, mark his vote on this ballot-paper by placing the number 1 in the square opposite the name of the candidate for whom he votes as his first preference; and must give contingent votes for all the remaining candidates by placing the numbers 2, 3, 4 (and so on, as the case requires), in the squares opposite their names, so as to indicate the order of his preference for them, fold the ballot-paper so that the vote cannot be seen, and return it to the Presiding Officer before whom he made his declaration. The Presiding Officer will then, in the presence, of the elector, without unfolding the ballot-paper, forthwith place it in the envelope bearing the declaration of the elector, securely fasten the envelope, and deposit it in the ballot-box.\n\n![](image.007.png)\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n![](image.007.png)\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n![](image.007.png)\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n \n\nForm 29. Regulation 53.\n\nIf the name of the State printed hereon is not the name of the State for which the elector declares that he is enrolled, the Presiding Officer must substitute the latter for the former, before issuing this ballot-paper.\n\nThe voter should retire alone to an unoccupied compartment of the booth, and there, in private, indicate his vote as follows:—\n\nIf he does not approve of the proposed law he should make a cross in the square opposite the word “No”;\n\nand shall fold the ballot-paper so that the vote cannot be seen, and return it to the Presiding Officer before whom he made his declaration. The Presiding Officer will then, in the presence of the elector, without unfolding the ballot-paper, forthwith place it in the envelope bearing the declaration of the elector, securely fasten the envelope, and deposit; it in the ballot-box.\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\nSubmission to the Electors of a Proposed Law for the Alteration of the Constitution.\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n![](image.008.png)Do you approve of the proposed law for the Alteration of the Constitution, entitled \\[here set out the title of the proposed law\\]?\n\n![](image.009.png)Yes.\n\nNo.\n\n \n\nForm 30. Regulation 54.\n\nIf the name of the State printed hereon is not the name of the State for which the elector declares that he is enrolled, the Presiding Officer must substitute the latter for the former, before issuing this ballot-paper.\n\nspecial form of ballot-paper.\n\nThe voter should retire alone to an unoccupied compartment of the booth, and there, in private, indicate his vote in relation to each proposed law as follows:—\n\nIf he does not approve of the proposed law he should make a cross in the square opposite the word “No”;\n\nand shall fold the ballot-paper so that the vote cannot be seen, and return it to the Presiding Officer before whom he made his declaration. The Presiding Officer will then, in the presence of the elector, without unfolding the ballot-paper, forthwith place it in the envelope bearing the declaration of the elector, securely fasten the envelope, and deposit it in the ballot-box.\n\n

Submission to the Electors of Proposed Laws for the Alteration of the Constitution.

1. Do you approve of the proposed law for the Alteration of the Constitution, entitled [here set out the title of the proposed law]?

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Yes.

No.

2. Do you approve of the proposed law for the Alteration of the Constitution, entitled [here set out the title of the proposed law]?

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Yes.

No.

\n```\n\n(Additional ballot-papers (numbered consecutively) in similar form may be included in this form).\n\n \n\nForm 31. Regulation 70.\n\nFrom of Declaration to be used by a Person claiming to Vote under the Provisions of Section 121 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act who declares that his Name has been omitted from, or struck out of, the Certified List of Voters owing to an error of an officer, or a mistake of fact.\n\nI \\[here insert name in full of person claiming to vote\\] of \\[here insert full address and occupation\\] declare:—\n\nThat I am entitled to be enrolled on the Electoral Roll for the \\[here insert name of Subdivision\\] Subdivision of the Electoral Division of \\[here insert name of Division\\];\n\nThat after becoming qualified for enrolment for such Subdivision I sent or delivered to the Registrar for the Subdivision a duly completed claim for enrolment (or transfer of enrolment), and that my claim was received by the Registrar before 6 o’clock in the afternoon of the \\[here insert date of issue of writ\\], that is, before the issue of the writ for the election being held this day;\n\nThat from the time of sending or delivering my claim to the Registrar and up to the issue of the writ as aforesaid, I continuously retained my right to be enrolled for the subdivision and did not become qualified for enrolment for any other subdivision;\n\nThat to the best of my knowledge and belief my name has been struck out of, or omitted from, the Certified List of Voters for this polling place owing to an error of an officer or a mistake of fact, and not as the result of an objection on the ground of non-residence or other disqualification, or in consequence of the transfer or duplication of my enrolment.\n\nNote.—“Election” in this Declaration means a Senate Election, or a House of Representatives Election, or any Referendum (held under the provisions of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act in force for the time being), or all of them, as the case requires.\n\nPersonal Signature of Voter—\n\nSigned before me the day of 19 at polling place.\n\nPresiding Officer.\n\nNote.—A person making any untrue statement in this declaration is liable to a penalty of Twenty pounds.\n\n \n\nForm 32. Regulation 79.\n\nSec. 152.\n\nReturn of Money Expended or Expense Incurred in connexion with an Election (to be furnished in accordance with Section 152 of the Act).\n\n(1) Here set out the name of the trades union, organization, association, league, body of persons, or the name of the person, as the case requires.\n\n(2) Here insert particulars of the election.\n\n(3) Here set out the name of the candidate or the names of the candidates and the name of any political party on behalf of or in the interests of which the expenditure was incurred.\n\nMoneys to the following amounts have been expended, and expenses to the following amounts have been incurred by (1)\n\nin connexion with the election held on the day of 19 for (2)\n\nand such amounts were expended or such expense was incurred on behalf of or in the interests of (3)\n\n(4) Here set out the names and addresses of persons to whom amounts have been paid or are to be paid, the amount paid or to be paid to each, and the nature of the service.\n\n(5) Here set out the names of newspapers, the dates on which the articles, or other matter appeared, the nature of the articles or other matter, and the amounts paid or to be paid for the insertion thereof. The particulars in respect of each newspaper are to be separately stated.\n\n

Amounts Paid.

Expenditure Incurred but not yet Paid.

I. Preparing Articles, Reports, Advertisements, Notices or other matter.

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Money expended or expense incurred in preparing (a) Articles and Reports, (b) Advertisements and Notices, or (c) other matter, including matter appearing in newspapers, and matter printed on cards or in the form of handbills, posters, pamphlets, or otherwise (4)

Total.........

II. Articles or other matter in Newspapers.

Money expended or expense incurred in connexion with the insertion of articles or other matter in newspapers (5)

Total.........

\n```\n\n \n\nForm 32—continued.\n\n(6) Here set out the names of the newspapers in which the reports appeared, the nature of the addresses or speeches, the dates on which they appeared and the name of the person making the speech or delivering the address, and the amount paid or to be paid. The particulars as regards each newspaper are to be separately stated.\n\n(7) Here set out the names of the newspapers in which the advertisements or notices appeared, the dates on which the advertisements or notices appeared, the nature of the advertisements or notices, and the amounts paid or to be paid for the insertion thereof. The particulars in respect of each newspaper are to be separately stated.\n\n(8) Here set out the names and addresses of persons to whom amounts have been paid or are to be paid, the amount paid or to be paid to each, and the nature of the service.\n\n

Amounts Paid.

Expenditure Incurred but not yet Paid.

III. Reports in Newspapers of Speeches or Addresses.

£

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

Money expended or expense incurred for the insertion in newspapers of reports of addresses or speeches (6)

Total.........

IV. Advertisements of Notices in Newspapers.

Money expended or expense incurred in connexion with the insertion of advertisements or notices in newspapers (7)

Total.........

V. Printing Articles, Reports, Advertisements, Notices or other matter (other than in Newspapers).

Money expended or expense incurred in printing (a) Articles and Reports, (b) Advertisements and Notices, or (c) other matter, including matter printed on cards or in the form of handbills, posters, pamphlets, or otherwise (8)

Total.........

VI. Publishing, Issuing, and Distributing Articles, Reports, Advertisements, Notices or other matter.

Money expended or expense incurred in publishing, issuing, and distributing (a) Articles and Reports, (b) Advertisements and Notices, or (c) other matter, including matter printed on cards or in the form of handbills, posters, pamphlets, or otherwise (8)

Total.........

\n```\n\n \n\nForm 32—continued.\n\n(9) Here set out under separate heads precise particulars of the service for which, the money was expended or the expense was incurred, together with the names of the persons concerned and the amount paid or to be paid to each person.\n\n

Amounts Paid.

Expenditure Incurred but not yet Paid.

VII. Miscellaneous Expenses.

£

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

Money expended on expense incurred but not accounted for under any other head provided in this return (9)

Total.........

\n```\n\nSummary of Money Expended or Expense Incurred, as shown in the Foregoing Return.\n\n

Amounts Paid.

Expenditure Incurred but not yet Paid.

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\n```\n\n(10) Here insert I or We, and the names, addresses, and descriptions of the persons making the return.\n\n(10)\n\nDeclared and subscribed before me at the day of 19\n\n \n\nForm 33. Regulation 80.\n\nNotice under Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, Section 152 (8).\n\nTo—\n\nTake notice that I, the Chief Electoral Officer for the Commonwealth, hereby require you, within from the date of this notice, to make a return, in accordance with Section 152 of the above-named Act, of any money expended or expense incurred by \\[here insert you or your trades union registered or unregistered, organization, association, or league or the body of persons of which you are the president (or the chairman or the secretary or an officer) as the case requires\\] in connexion with the \\[here insert the election or elections in connexion with which the return is required\\]—\n\n(a) on behalf of, or in the interests of, any candidate; or\n\n(b) on behalf of, or in the interests of, any political party; or\n\n(c) in printing, publishing, or issuing electoral advertisements or notices, or procuring the insertion in any newspaper of any advertisement, article, or report, or matter intended or calculated to affect the result of the said election (or elections).\n\nChief Electoral Officer.\n\nForm 34. Regulation 81.\n\nSec. 153.\n\nReturn by Proprietor or Publisher of a Newspaper of Electoral Matter Published therein in respect of which Payment has been or is to be made.\n\nTitle of newspaper—\n\nPlace where published—\n\nName of proprietor—\n\n\\* Here insert particulars of the election.\n\nThe amount of electoral matter in connexion with the election held on the day of 19 for—\\*\n\ninserted in the above paper in respect of which payment has been or is to be made, the space occupied by such matter, the amount paid or owing in respect of such matter, and the names and addresses of the trades unions (registered or unregistered), organizations, associations, leagues, bodies of persons, or persons authorizing the insertion thereof are as follows:—\\[Here set out in the proper columns the date and particulars as regards each article, advertisement, report of speech, paragraph, or other electoral matter inserted in the paper and for the insertion of which payment has been or is to be made. The following specimens of particulars may be taken as guides.\\]\n\n

Date.

Particulars of Electoral Matter.

Amounts paid or owing for insertion.

1918.

£

s

d.

Dec. 2

Article headed “Aims of the Buff Party,” 1½ columns, inserted by authority of Samuel Grey, 14 Yellow-street, Buff Town, Secretary of the Buff Party

5

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3

Advertisement announcing candidature of William Drab, for the Buff Town Division, ¼ column, inserted by authority of William Drab, of 25 White-street, Buff Town, gentleman

1

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4

Report of Speech by William Drab, delivered at Town Hall, Buff Town, on 3 Feb., 2 columns, inserted by his authority

7

7

0

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5

Paragraph, “Points for the Buff Town electors,” ½ column, inserted by authority of Samuel Grey, 14 Yellow-street, Buff Town, Secretary of the Buff Party

2

2

0

\n```\n\n\\* Here set out name and address of person making return, and whether proprietor or publisher of the newspaper.\n\nDeclared and subscribed before me this day of 19\n\n \n\nRegulation 87 (1).\n\nForm C.\n\nCommonwealth of Australia,\n\nDirections to Voter.\n\nThe Voter should indicate his Vote as follows:—\n\nIf he does not approve of the proposed law he should make a Cross in the square opposite the word “No”.\n\n| Submission to the Electors of a Proposed Law for the Alteration of the Constitution. |\n| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| Do you approve of the proposed law for the Alteration of the Constitution, entitled [here set out the title of the proposed law]?Yes.No. |\n\nRegulation 87 (2).\n\nForm C.\n\nspecial form of ballot-paper.\n\nDirections to Voter.\n\nThe Voter should indicate his Vote in relation to each proposed law as follows:—\n\nIf he does not approve of the proposed law he should make a Cross in the square opposite the word “No”.\n\n

Submission to the Electors of Proposed Laws for the Alteration of the Constitution.

1. Do you approve of the proposed law for the Alteration of the Constitution, entitled [here set out the title of the proposed law]?

\"\"\"\"

Yes.

No.

2. Do you approve of the proposed law for the Alteration of the Constitution, entitled [here set out the title of the proposed law]?

\"\"\"\"

Yes.

No.

\n```\n\n(Additional ballot-papers (numbered consecutively) in similar form may be included in this form.)\n\n \n\nForm 33. Regulation 88.\n\nSec. 35.\n\nReturn of Money Expended or Expense Incurred in connexion with a Referendum or Referendums (to be furnished in accordance with Section 35 of the Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act).\n\n(1) Here set out the name of the trades union, organization, association, league, body of persons, or the name of the person, as the case requires.\n\n(2) Here set out the title of the proposed law (or proposed laws). When two or more Referendums are being held on the same day, the particulars as regards all the Referendums may be included in one return.\n\n(3) Here state whether the money was expended, or the expense incurred in favour of the proposed law or in opposition to the proposed law.\n\nMoneys to the following amounts have been expended and expenses to the following amounts have been incurred by (1) within three months before the date of taking the vote at the Referendum (or Referendums) held on the day of 19 , for the submission of a proposed law (or proposed laws) entitled (2)\n\nin connexion with the Referendum or Referendums, and such amounts were expended or such expense was incurred (3)\n\nthe proposed law submitted to the electors at the Referendum or Referendums.\n\n(4) Here set out the names and addresses of persons to whom amounts have been paid or are to be paid, the amount paid or to be paid to each, and the nature of the service.\n\n(5) Here set out the names of newspapers, the dates on which the articles or other matter appeared, the nature of the articles or other matter, and the amounts paid or to be paid for the insertion thereof. The particulars in respect of each newspaper are to be separately stated.\n\n

Amounts Paid.

Expenditure Incurred but not yet Paid.

1. Preparing Articles, Reports, Advertisements, Notices or other matter.

Money expended or expense incurred in preparing (a) Articles and Reports, (b) Advertisements and Notices, or (c) other matter, including matter appearing in newspapers, and matter printed on cards or in the form of handbills, posters, pamphlets, or otherwise (4)

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£

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II. Articles or other matter in Newspapers.

Money expended or expense incurred in connexion with the insertion of articles or other matter in newspapers (5)

Total..............

\n```\n\n \n\nForm 35—continued.\n\n(6) Here set out the names of the newspapers in which the reports appeared, the nature of the addresses or speeches, the dates on which they appeared and the names of the persons making the speeches or delivering the addresses, and the amount paid or to be paid. The particulars as regards each newspaper are to be separately stated.\n\n(7) Here set out the names of the newspapers in which the advertisements or notices appeared, the dates on which the advertisements or notices appeared, the nature of the advertisements or notices, and the amounts paid or to be paid for the insertion thereof. The particulars in respect of each newspaper are to be separately stated.\n\n(8) Here set out the names and addresses of the persons to whom amounts have been paid or are to be paid, the amount paid or to be paid to each, and the nature of the service.\n\n

Amounts Paid.

Expenditure Incurred but not yet Paid.

III. Reports in Newspapers of Speeches or Addresses.

£

s.

d.

£

s.

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Money expended or expense incurred for the insertion in newspapers of reports of addresses or speeches (6)

Total..............

IV. Advertisements or Notices in Newspapers.

Money expended or expense incurred in connexion with the insertion of advertisements or notices in newspapers (7)

Total..............

V. Printing Articles, Reports, Advertisements, Notices or other matter (other than in Newspapers).

Money expended or expense incurred in printing (a) Articles and Reports, (b) Advertisements and Notices, or (c) other matter, including matter printed on cards or in the form of handbills, posters, pamphlets, or otherwise (8)

Total..............

VI. Publishing, Issuing, and Distributing Articles, Reports, Advertisements, Notices or other matter.

Money expended or expense incurred in publishing, issuing, and distributing (a) Articles and Reports, (b) Advertisements and Notices, or (c) other matter, including matter printed on cards or in the form of handbills, posters, pamphlets, or otherwise (8)

Total..............

\n```\n\n \n\nForm 35—continued.\n\n(9) Here set out under separate heads precise particulars of the service for which the money was expended or the expense was incurred, together with the names of the persons concerned and the amount paid or to be paid to each person.\n\n

Amounts Paid.

Expenditure Incurred but not yet Paid.

£

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d.

£

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VII. Miscellaneous Expenses.

Money expended or expense incurred but not accounted for under any other head provided in this return (9)

Total............

\n```\n\nSummary of Money Expended or Expense Incurred, as shown in the Foregoing Return.\n\n

Amounts Paid.

Expenditure Incurred but not yet Paid.

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\n```\n\n(10) Here insert I or We, and the names, addresses, and descriptions of the persons making the return.\n\n(10)\n\nDeclared and subscribed before me at the day of 19\n\n \n\nForm 36. Regulation 89.\n\nNotice under Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act Section 35 (9).\n\nTo—\n\nTake notice that I, the Chief Electoral Officer for the Commonwealth, hereby require you, within from the date of this notice, to make a return, in accordance with Section 35 of the above named Act, of any money expended or expenses incurred, within three months before the date of taking the vote at the undermentioned referendum (or referendums), by \\[here insert you or your trades union, registered or unregistered, organization, association, or league or the body of persons of which you are the president (or the chairman or the secretary or an officer) as the case requires\\]in connexion with the \\[here insert the referendum or referendums in connexion with which the return is required\\]—\n\n(a) in support of the proposed law (or laws) submitted to the electors at the said referendum (or referendums); or\n\n(b) in opposition to the proposed law (or laws) submitted to the electors at the said referendum (or referendums); or\n\n(c) in printing, publishing, or issuing advertisements or notices, or procuring the insertion in any newspaper of any advertisement, article, or report, or matter intended or calculated to affect the result of the said referendum (or referendums).\n\nChief Electoral Officer.\n\nForm 37. Regulation 90.\n\nReturn by Proprietor or Publisher of a Newspaper of Matter relating to a Referendum, Published therein within three months before the date of taking the vote at the Referendum in respect of which Payment has been or is to be made.\n\nTitle of newspaper—\n\nPlace where published—\n\nName of proprietor—\n\n(1) Here insert the title of the proposed law (or proposed laws). (Where two or more referendums are being held on the same day the particulars as regards all the Referendums may be included in one return).\n\nThe amount of matter in connexion with the Referendum (or Referendums) held on the day of 19 for the submission to the electors of a proposed law (or proposed laws) entitled—(1)\n\ninserted in the above paper within three months before the date of taking the vote at the said Referendum (or Referendums) in respect of which payment has been or is to be made, the space occupied by such matter, the amount paid or owing in respect of such matter, and the names and addresses of the trades unions (registered or unregistered), organizations, associations, leagues, bodies of persons, or persons authorizing the insertion thereof are \n\nForm 37—continued.\n\nas follows:—\\[Here set out in the proper columns the date and particulars as regards each article, advertisement, report of speech, paragraph, or other matter in connexion with the referendum, inserted in the paper, and for the insertion of which payment has been or is to be made.\\]\n\n

Date.

Particulars.

Amounts paid or owing for insertion.

£

s.

d.

\n```\n\n(2) Here set out name and address of person making the return, and whether proprietor or publisher of the newspaper.\n\nI,—(2)\n\nDeclared and subscribed before me this day of 19\n\nPrinted and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.","sortOrder":9}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-realtime","completionTokens":2371},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":8,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations remain tightly focused on their original purpose of operationalizing the Electoral Act and Referendum Act through administrative procedures, prescribed forms, and enforcement mechanisms. While comprehensive in detail, they do not expand beyond implementing the parent Acts' provisions for elections and referendums."},"complexity_factors":["90 regulations across 4 Parts with 11 Divisions covering distinct operational phases (enrolment, enforcement, conduct, scrutiny)","37 prescribed forms in the Schedule with highly specific field requirements and conditional formatting","Extensive cross-referencing to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 and Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act","Nested conditional logic for different voting methods (postal vs absent vs Section 121 provisional voting) each with distinct form requirements","Dual-track enforcement mechanisms for compulsory enrolment combining administrative penalties (Commonwealth Electoral Officer) with court proceedings","Multi-stage scrutiny procedures (preliminary, further, recounts) with specific rules for handling informal ballot papers containing multiple provisos and exceptions","Special provisions for specific categories (members of the Forces, illiterate voters, joint rolls with Tasmania)"],"plain_english_summary":"**What it does:** These regulations (made in 1918, commencing March 1919) provide the detailed administrative rules for running Australian federal elections and constitutional referendums under the *Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918* and the *Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act 1906-1915*.\n\n**Who it affects:** All Australian electors, election officials (Electoral Registrars, Divisional Returning Officers, Presiding Officers), political candidates, trade unions, political parties, and newspaper proprietors.\n\n**Key areas covered:**\n\n* **Enrolment:** Specifies the forms and procedures for claiming enrolment, transferring between electorates, updating addresses, and correcting roll details. Includes special provisions for members of the armed forces (Form 2a).\n* **Compulsory Enrolment Enforcement:** Sets out how officials investigate and penalise people who fail to enrol, including administrative fines (up to £2) or court prosecution.\n* **Objections:** Procedures for challenging a person’s right to remain on the electoral roll (e.g., on grounds of non-residence), including notices and appeal rights.\n* **Voting Methods:** Detailed rules for three ways to vote:\n * **Ordinary voting** at a polling place;\n * **Postal voting** (applying for a certificate, marking the ballot before an authorised witness, and returning it by post);\n * **Absent voting** (voting at a polling place outside your home electorate on election day).\n* **Scrutiny (Counting):** Step-by-step procedures for counting votes, including handling of \"informal\" (invalid) ballot papers, preliminary scrutiny of absent and postal votes, and authorised recounts.\n* **Financial Disclosure:** Requires trade unions, organisations, and newspaper proprietors to lodge returns detailing money spent on election advertising, campaign materials, and articles intended to influence voting.\n* **Forms:** The Schedule contains 37 prescribed forms, including electoral claim forms, ballot papers, postal vote certificates, and expenditure returns.\n\n**Why it matters:** It translates Parliament’s electoral laws into the practical paperwork and step-by-step processes that enable millions of Australians to enrol, vote, and have their ballots counted securely and secretly."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/electoral-and-referendum-regulations-1918","history":"/api/acts/electoral-and-referendum-regulations-1918/history","analysis":"/api/acts/electoral-and-referendum-regulations-1918/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/electoral-and-referendum-regulations-1918/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/electoral-and-referendum-regulations-1918/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/electoral-and-referendum-regulations-1918/documents"}}