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Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Pre-poll Voting and Other Measures) Act 2010 - Proclamation

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This commencement proclamation formally brought Schedule 2 of the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Pre-poll Voting and Other Measures) Act 2010 into force on 19 July 2010. It doesn’t set voting rules itself but records the Administrator of the Government using statutory powers to fix the start date—giving the AEC and officials certainty about when the amended pre-poll procedures took effect and indirectly affecting voters.

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Proclamation

Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Pre-poll Voting and Other Measures) Act 2010

I, MARIE BASHIR, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under item 3 of the table in subsection 2 (1) of the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Pre-poll Voting and Other Measures) Act 2010, fix 19 July 2010 as the day on which Schedule 2 to that Act commences.

Signed and sealed with the Great Seal of Australia on 19 July 2010

MARIE BASHIR Administrator

By Her Excellency’s Command

JOSEPH LUDWIG

Special Minister of State

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