Div 1General.

Division 1.—General.

23. (1) Names may be added to Rolls pursuant to claims for enrolment or transfer of enrolment.

* See section 41 of the Constitution:—

41. No adult person who has or acquires a right to vote at elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of a State shall while the right continues be prevented by any law of the Commonwealth from voting at elections for either House of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.

(2) The form of claim for enrolment or transfer of enrolment, or notification of change of address within a Subdivision of the Territory by a person qualified for enrolment, may be in accordance with Form 2, and shall be signed by the claimant with his personal signature, and attested by an elector or person qualified to be an elector of the Territory who shall sign his name as witness in his own handwriting.

(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 in such other form signed by the applicant, as the Registrar approves.

24. (1) Any person qualified for enrolment, who lives in a Subdivision of the Territory, and has so lived for a period of one month last past, shall be entitled to have his name placed on the Roll for the Subdivision in which he lives.

(2) Any elector whose name is on the Roll for any Subdivision of a Commonwealth Electoral Division or of the Territory and who lives in any other Subdivision, and has so lived for a period of one month last past, shall be entitled to have his name transferred to the Roll for the Subdivision in which he lives.

(3) No person is entitled to have his name placed on more than one Roll or upon any Roll other than the Roll for the Subdivision in which he lives.

(4) The validity of any enrolment shall not in any case be questioned on the ground that the person enrolled has not in fact lived in the Subdivision for a period of one month.

25. (1) Every person who is entitled to have his name placed on the Roll for a Subdivision of the Territory whether by way of enrolment or transfer of enrolment, and whose name is not on the Roll, shall forthwith fill in and sign, in accordance with the directions printed thereon, a claim in Form 2, and send or deliver the claim to the Registrar for the Subdivision.

(2) Every person who is entitled to have his name placed on the Roll for a Subdivision of the Territory whether by way of enrolment or transfer of enrolment, and whose name is not on the Roll upon the expiration of twenty-one days from the date upon which he became so entitled, or at any subsequent date while he continues to be so entitled, shall be guilty of an offence unless he proves that his non-enrolment is not in consequence of his failure to send or deliver to the Registrar for the Subdivision for which he is entitled to be enrolled, a claim in Form 2 duly filled in and signed in accordance with the directions printed thereon.