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CHAPTER 1.

Special disqualifica-
tion in the Northern
Territory.
Code, s. 16.

One registration.
Ibid., s. 18.

Place of voting.
Ibid., s. 19.

Where person deemed to reside.

W.A., 27, 1907, s. 17.

One vote only.

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Elections.

Code, s. 20, adapted.

CHAPTER II.

Returning Officer for the State.

Code, s. 21.

Deputy Returning
Officer for the State.
N.Z., 29, 1905, s. 30.

The Electoral Code.-1908.

(b) Has been attainted of treason, or has been convicted and is under sentence, or subject to be sentenced, for any offence punishable under the law of any part of the King's dominions by imprisonment for one year or longer.

18. Persons brought into the Northern Territory under “The Northern Territory Indian Immigration Act, 1882," and persons residing in the Northern Territory, except natural born British subjects and Europeans and citizens of the United States of America naturalised as British subjects, are disqualified from voting.

19. No person may at the same time be registered on more than one Council roll or on more than one Assembly roll.

20. No person may vote at any election except an election for the Council District or Assembly District in which he resides.

21. For the purposes of this Act a person shall be deemed to reside within the District, Division, or sub-district wherein he has his usual place of residence, notwithstanding his occasional absence from such District, Division, or sub-district.

22. No person shall vote more than once at the same election.

23. The following elections are required to be held:

1. Periodical elections for the Council to supply the places of
Members retiring by effluxion of time:

II. General elections for the Assembly, in the event of the
Assembly expiring by effluxion of time:

III. Elections for supplying casual vacancies in either House:
IV. General elections for the Assembly or for both Houses, in
the event of the dissolution of the Assembly or of both
Houses:

v. Elections for additional Members of the Council pursuant to
writs issued under the constitutional provisions for the
settlement of deadlocks between the two Houses,

CHAPTER II.-ADMINISTRATION.

24. (1) There shall be a Returning Officer for the State, to be appointed by the Governor.

(2) The Returning Officer for the State shall be responsible, under the Minister, for the execution of this Act.

25. The Governor may appoint a Deputy Returning Officer for the State, who, under the control of the Returning Officer for the State, shall perform such general official duties as he is called upon to perform, and who, in case of the illness, absence, or other

temporary

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temporary incapacity of the Returning Officer for the State, shall act in his name and on his behalf, and who, while so acting, shall have and may exercise all the powers, duties, and functions of the Returning Officer for the State.

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ments in case of

26. If at any time both the Returning Officer for the State and Temporary appointthe Deputy Returning Officer for the State are from any cause incapacity. incapable of acting, the Governor may appoint a person to discharge Ibid. the duties of the office, who may exercise all the powers, duties, and functions of the Returning Officer for the State.

27. (1) There shall be a Returning Officer for each Council and each Assembly District, to be appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Returning Officer for the State.

(2) Each Returning Officer shall be responsible, subject to any directions of the Returning Officer for the State, for the execution of this Act in his District.

Returning Officers.

Code, s. 21.

Com., s. 7.

Officers.

28. (1) The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Re- Assistant Returning turning Officer for the State, appoint Assistant Returning Officers to assist a Returning Officer.

(2) An Assistant Returning Officer may exercise all the powers of the Returning Officer, subject to such limitations as are

(a) Expressed in his appointment; or

(b) Prescribed by the Regulations; or (c) Directed by the Returning Officer.

Tas., 6, 1907, s. 7.

Districts.

29. Each Assembly District Returning Officer shall, as regards Deputy Returning that Division of a Council District which corresponds with his Officers for Council Assembly District, be the Deputy Returning Officer for such Code, s. 22. Council District.

30. Every person hereafter appointed Returning Officer for the State, or Deputy Returning Officer for the State, or a Returning Officer, shall, before he enters on the performance of any duty of such office, make and subscribe before a Justice of the Peace the following declaration, and transmit the same, on the first convenient opportunity, to the Minister:

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CHAPTER II.

Returning Officer or

Assistant not to resign pending return of writ.

W.A., 27, 1907.

s. 13.

Notice of appoint

ments.

Cf. Code, s. 26.

Temporary assistants.

W.A., 27, 1907, 8. 15.

Temporary appointments in case of incapacity of officer. Tas. 6, 1907, s. 7.

Disqualification for

office.

W.A. 27, 1907. s. 16.
Cf. Code, s. 31.

Continuation of

present officers.

Cf. Code, s 32.

The Electoral Code.-1908.

31. No Returning Officer, Deputy Returning Officer, or Assistant Returning Officer shall, without the consent of the Minister, resign his office after the issue of a writ for an election for the District for which he is the Returning Officer, or a Deputy Returning Officer, or an Assistant Returning Officer, until such writ is executed and returned; but such resignation, though without consent, shall not invalidate the election.

32. A Gazette notice shall be given as soon as practicable of every appointment of a Returning Officer.

33. The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Returning Officer for the State, appoint such temporary assistants as he considers requisite for the due administration of this Act.

34. If at any time any Returning Officer, Assistant Returning Officer, or temporary assistant is from any cause incapable of acting, the Returning Officer for the State may appoint a person to discharge the duties of the office temporarily, and whilst so acting such person shall have and may exercise all the powers, duties, and functions of the officer in whose place he is appointed.

35. (a) No candidate and no person holding any official position in connection with any political organisation or election committee shall be appointed an officer under this Act.

(b) If any such officer becomes a candidate, or is elected, appointed, or otherwise becomes an official of any political organisation or election committee, he shall be deemed to have vacated the office held by him under this Act, and some other person shall be appointed in his stead.

36. All officers administering the electoral law at the time when this Act comes into operation, except Assistant Returning Officers Com 12, 1901, s. 26. appointed for outlying portions of districts under "The Electoral Code, 1896," are continued in their offices as if appointed under this Act, and are hereby empowered and required to exercise the powers and perform the duties of such offices.

Keeping of forms by officers.

Code, s. 29.

Com., s. 10.

Forms to be supplied
to postmasters, &c.
Cf. Code, s. 27.

37. The Returning Officers shall keep all necessary electoral forms, and shall without fee supply the same and fill them up and assist the public in their proper use.

38. Electoral forms shall be supplied to every postmaster, every clerk of a Municipal Corporation or District Council, and every officer in charge of a police station, and to such other persons as are approved by the Returning Officer for the State, and such forms shall have printed on the back "To the Returning Officer for the State, Adelaide."

39. The

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39. The Returning Officer for the State shall cause to be exhibited in a prominent place at all post offices a notice in bold type giving full instructions as to the procedure for the registration, transfer, and change of electors' names in electoral rolls and the alteration and correction of electoral rolls.

CHAPTER II.

Notice of instructions as to procedure.

CHAPTER III.--SUB-DISTRICTS AND POLLING-PLACES.

CHAPTER III.

40. ( The Governor may, in any case in which he thinks fit Sub-districts. so to do, by Proclamation, divide any Assembly District into such Com., s. 24. sub-districts as he deems convenient, and, subject to this Act, may alter the boundaries of sub-districts.

(2) The sub-districts of an Assembly District shall be also subdistricts of the corresponding Division of a Council District.

41. The Returning Officer for the District of Northern Territory Polling-booth in may set apart a compartment in a train travelling on the Port train. Darwin to Pine Creek Railway in the Northern Territory as a polling-place for the said district. Electors may vote in such compartment wherever such train may stop from time to time and whilst the train is so stopping during the hours set apart for the polling at an election: Provided that an elector so voting shall vote under the provisions of paragraph (b) of section 141.

42. (1) The chief and other polling-places for the various Dis- Polling-places. tricts shall be for the present as set forth in the Second Schedule.

(2) Upon the division of a District into sub-districts the polling-places then within a sub-district shall, until altered, be the polling-places for such sub-district.

Code, s. 12.

43. Any polling-place may be opened or closed for either or both Opening and closing Houses by Proclamation, pursuant to addresses of both Houses of polling-places. passed during the same Session.

Ibid., s. 13.

No alteration in

44. (1) After the issue of a writ for an election in any District and until such election is over no change shall be made in the polling places after polling-places for that District.

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emergency.

(2) If from any cause the taking of the poll at any polling-place Except in case of is considered by the Minister, on a certificate from the Returning Officer for the State, to be impracticable, the Governor may, by notice in the Government Gazette, direct that such polling-place shall for the purpose of such election be closed.

(3) The closing of any polling-place as mentioned in subsection (2) of this section shall in no way affect the validity of the election.

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45. When

CHAPTER III. Change of electors from one pollingplace to another. Com., s. 26.

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45. When a polling-place is opened or closed, or a District is divided into sub-districts, or the boundaries of a District or subdistrict are altered, the Minister may, by Gazette notice, give such directions as are thereby rendered necessary or expedient for the change of electors from one roll to another, and effect shall be given forthwith to the directions contained in such notice.

CHAPTER IV.

PART I.

Polling-place or sub

district rolls.

Code, s. 35.

Com., s. 28.

Ibid.

Division and district roll.

Ibid.

Northern Territory rolls.

Arrangement with
Commonwealth.
Cf. Com., s. 30.

CHAPTER IV.

PART I.-ROLLS.

46. (1) There shall be a roll of electors for each Division and for each Assembly District prepared and kept by the Returning Officer for the State.

(2) There shall be a separate roll for each polling-place, in this Act called a "polling-place roll."

(3) There shall be a separate roll for each sub-district, in this Act called a "sub-district roll."

(4) All the polling-place or sub-district rolls for a Division or an Assembly District shall together form the roll for such Division or District.

47. Notwithstanding anything contained in clause 46, the Returning Officer and Deputy Returning Officer for the District and Division of Northern Territory and the Assistant Returning Officers for such District and Division shall, as directed by the Returning Officer for the State, prepare and keep the electoral rolls for such District and Division.

48. (1) The Governor may arrange with the Governor-General of the Commonwealth for the preparation, alteration, and revision of the Assembly rolls in any manner consistent with the provisions of this Act, jointly by the State and the Commonwealth, to the intent that the rolls may be used as electoral rolls for Commonwealth elections as well as for State elections.

(2) When any such arrangement has been made the rolls may contain for the purposes of such Commonwealth elections(a) The names and descriptions of persons who are not entitled to be registered thereon as electors of the State, provided that it is clearly indicated in the prescribed manner that those persons are not registered thereon as State electors; (b) Distinguishing marks against the names of persons registered as State electors to show that those persons are or are not also registered as Commonwealth electors;

(c) Other particulars in addition to the prescribed particulars; and for the purpose of this Act the names and descriptions, marks, and particulars so contained shall not be deemed part of the roll.

49. (1) Any

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