PART II.- TIONS AND DISQUALIFICA TIONS OF ELECTORS. Disqualifications. One adult one vote. PART IIIPREPARATION OF ELECTORAL ROLLS. Registration for the District in which such estate is situated. The said electoral registrar, upon being satisfied of the facts stated in the application, shall forthwith enter the name of such elector in such roll, and shall give notice of the transfer to the electoral registrar of the District in which such elector resides, and the last-mentioned registrar shall forthwith upon the receipt of such notice erase the name of such elector from the roll for the District in which he resides. Upon such transfer being made, such elector shall be entitled to vote at the election of Members of the Assembly for the District in which such estate is situated, instead of for the District in which he resides. Disqualifications. 7.* No person who is of unsound mind, and no person attainted of treason, or who 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; or During six months immediately preceding the sitting of the Registration Court, or the holding of the election, has been imprisoned without the option of a fine for an aggregate period of one month; or During one year immediately prior to the sitting of the Registration Court, or the holding of the election, has been convicted of being an habitual drunkard, or has been convicted of drunkenness twelve times, or has been convicted of being an idle and disorderly person, or an incorrigible rogue, or a rogue and vagabond; or Has against him an unsatisfied order of any court for the maintenance of his wife or children (whether legitimate or illegitimate); or Has been convicted of having committed an aggravated assault upon his wife within one year; shall be entitled to be placed upon any electoral roll or to vote at any election of Members of the Assembly. No aboriginal native of Australia, Asia, Africa, or the Islands of the Pacific shall be entitled to have his name placed on an Electoral Roll. No person who is an inmate of any public charitable institution for the reception maintenance and care of indigent persons other than a hospital established under the Statutes relating to hospitals shall be entitled to vote at any election of Members of the Assembly. 8. No person shall be entitled to vote more than once at the same election. No person shall be entitled to vote in respect of more than on Electoral District notwithstanding the fact that his name is on more than one Electoral Roll. PART III. PREPARATION OF ELECTORAL ROLLS. 9. The Governor in Council may appoint for each electoral district one or more places at which a Court of Petty Sessions is held to be a place or places at which a Registration Court shall be held for the district. * Section repealed and new section substituted by section 9 (2) of the Act of 1905. 1885. Consolidated Act. PART III.- OF ELECTORAL When more than one place is appointed for a district, such part of the district as is appointed by the Governor in Council shall be assigned to each Court, and by such name as the Governor in Council appoints. Any part so assigned is hereinafter called an electoral division of the district. When no place is so appointed, the principal place at which a Court of Petty Sessions is held in the district, or, if no Court of Petty Sessions is so held, the nearest place at which a Court of Petty Sessions is held shall be the place at which the Registration Court shall be held for the district. Electoral 10.* The Governor in Council may appoint a Principal Electoral Principal Registrar, who shall be responsible for the execution of this Act through- Registrar. out Queensland. Registrar. The Governor in Council may appoint for each place appointed Electoral for holding a Registration Court an electoral registrar, who shall be and act as an electoral registrar for all the electoral districts or divisions for which a Registration Court is held at that place. If no electoral registrar is appointed, the clerk of petty sessions for the place so appointed shall be and act as electoral registrar. * Every electoral registrar shall perform the duties imposed upon him by this Act under the general supervision and direction of the Principal Electoral Registrar. *The Principal Electoral Registrar may from time to time make, or cause to be made, such inquiries and investigations as he thinks necessary for the effectual execution of his duties and the duties of electoral registrars. He may require any original claim, or a copy of any list, notice," or other document, to be sent to him by any electoral registrar. He may from time to time make or cause to be made such corrections of verbal errors in any roll as may be found necessary. *Whenever by reason of the absence or illness of the Principal Electoral Registrar or for other sufficient cause, it is expedient so to do, the Governor in Council may appoint a person to act as the Deputy of the Principal Electoral Registrar, and during the term of his office such Deputy shall have all the powers and authorities and shall perform all the duties of the Principal Electoral Registrar, and shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed in all respects to be the Principal Electoral Registrar. 11.8 (1.) The Registration Court shall be constituted by such two or Courts how more justices of the peace as shall meet for the purpose: Nevertheless the Court shall be constituted by two or more justices resident in the District if such justices are present. If a Judge or Crown prosecutor of a District Court is present, such Judge or Crown prosecutor shall, by virtue of his office, be a member of the Court. It shall be the duty of any such Judge or Crown prosecutor to attend the Court if required by the Minister so to do. * Provisions as to Principal Electoral Registrar inserted by section 3 of the Act of 1898. + Words from "who" to " Queensland" substituted for "to perform the duties hereinafter mentioned" by section 5 of the Act of 1905. Paragraphs inserted by section 5 of the Act of 1905. § Subsection repealed and new subsection substituted by section 6 of the Act of 1905. constituted and presided over. PART III.- OF ELECTORAL Majority to decide. Registrar to furnish deaths. Rolls to be marked. Notice to be sent to persons whose names are intended to be omitted from rolls. Or the statement of whose residence is to be altered. (2.) Any police magistrate may act as a member of a Registration Court whether he resides in the district or not, and if no other justices are present may act alone. (3.) A Judge, if he is present, or, if he is not present, the Crown prosecutor, or, if no Judge or Crown prosecutor is present, a police magistrate, if present, shall be the chairman of the Court. If no such officer is present, the justices present shall from time to time elect one of their own number to be chairman. (4.)* (5.) No candidate for election or member of the Legislative Council or Legislative Assembly shall take any part in the proceedings at any Court under a penalty of twenty pounds, to be recovered in a summary way before any two justices of the peace. +(6.) No person other than a Police Magistrate before or by whom any claim under this Act has been declared or attested, or who has caused or procured or who has been in anywise concerned in the making, delivering, or sending of any such claim to or at a court or to an electoral registrar, shall act as a member of the court when such a claim is being heard or adjudicated upon, under a penalty of fifty pounds, to be recovered on summary conviction. 12. The decision of the majority of the members of the Registration Court shall be the decision of the Court, and in estimating the majority the chairman shall have a vote, and, when the numbers are equal, a casting vote. 13. Every registrar of births, deaths, and marriages shall, during the month of August in each year, furnish to the electoral registrars of every electoral district any part whereof is comprised in the registry district for which he is such registrar of births, deaths, and marriages, a correct list of all deaths of adult males and females of twenty-one years and upwards, and of all marriages of female electors, which have been registered by him during the twelve months then past. 14. Between the first and thirty-first days of August in each year the electoral registrars for every district shall examine the electoral rolls then in force for the district and also the §bi-monthly electoral list for §August, hereinafter mentioned, and after inquiry of the residents in the district, and the inspection of rate-books, lists of selectors, lists of pastoral tenants, and any other documents accessible to him, shall place the word "dead" against the name of every person named in any such roll or list whom he has reason to believe to be dead, the word "left" against the name of every person whose qualification is residence whom he has reason to believe to have left the district, and the word disqualified" against the name of every person whom he has reason to believe to be disqualified. He shall thereupon forthwith send by post to every such person at his usual or last known place of abode, a notice informing him that it is intended to omit his name from the electoral roll. * Subsection (4) repealed by section 6 of the Act of 1905. + Subsection (6) inserted by section 4 of the Act of 1898. Words from "adult" to "electors" substituted for adult males of twenty-one years and upwards" by section 9 (4) of the Act of 1905. §"Bi-monthly" substituted for " Quarterly," and "August" substituted for "July then last past," by section 6 of the Act of 1897. This part of this paragraph was amended by section 7 of the Act of 1897, and is printed as further amended by section 9 (5) of the Act of 1905. 1885. Consolidated Act. PART III.- OF ELECTORAL When the electoral registrar has reason to believe that any person named in a roll or list whose qualification is residence has left the division of the district for which he is registered, or has changed his residence, but in either case has not left the electoral district, he shall write against the name of such person the words changed residence," and in such case he shall send by post to such person, at his usual or last known place of abode, a notice informing him that the statement of his place of residence is intended to be altered in the roll, and in case the electoral registrar has reason to believe that such person has gone to reside in another division of the district he shall forthwith report the fact to the electoral registrar of that division. proposed to Registrar to *The Electoral Registrar shall make out a correct list of the names List of of all persons against whom he places the word " dead," "left," or persons disqualified," showing the word so placed against each name, and be omitted shall cause a copy, of such list to be published once at least in the month Electoral of September in some newspaper circulating in the District, and shall be published. expose a copy of such list to public view at every Court-house in the District, and at such post offices and other places as the Principal Electoral Registrar may direct, and such list shall remain so exposed until the holding of the Registration Court for revising the Annual Lists. There shall be prefixed to such list a notice in the following form or to the like effect: : Notice. The name of any person included in this list who has not a qualification will be omitted from the electoral roll. The notice sent by the Electoral Registrar to any such person must state that it is intended to omit his name from the electoral roll unless §the Registration Court for revising the Annual Lists is satisfied that he has a qualification. Form of notice to be proposed to sent to persons be omitted. rolls and list. 15. The Electoral Registrar shall, from the rolls and list so marked Lists to be and the notices so received from other electoral registrars, and including compiled from every name thereon, make out a list of all persons qualified to vote in bi-monthly the district or division of the district, but with the word "dead," the word "left," or the word "disqualified," as the case may require, against every name of a person who is believed to be dead, or to have left the district,** or to be disqualified, and the words "changed residence from this division," or "changed residence to this division," or "changed residence within this division or district," as the case may be, against the name of every person who is believed, or reported as aforesaid, to have so changed his residence within the district.†† • Section 11 of the Act of 1892 was here inserted under the authority of section 26 and the Schedule of the Act of 1897. 1898. "Principal Electoral Registrar" substituted for "Minister" by section 5 of the Act of Words from "who" to "qualification" substituted for "whose qualification is not proved on oath to the satisfaction of the Annual Revision Court to be still subsisting" by section 11 of the Act of 1897. § Words from "the" to "qualification" substituted for "unless his qualification is proved on oath to the satisfaction of the Registration Court for revising the Annual Lists to be still subsisting" by section 11 of the Act of 1897. 1905. Paragraph inserted by section 7 of the Act of 1897 repealed by section 9 (5) of the Act of **Words requiring the list to be noted in case of change of qualification repealed by section 9 (6) of the Act of 1905. + Words added to section by section 7 of the Act of 1897 repealed by section 9 (6) of the Act of 1905. PART III. PREPARATION OF ELECTORAL ROLLS. Form of annual list. 16. Such list shall be alphabetical, and shall be in the following form: : *ANNUAL ELECTORAL LIST. List of Persons appearing to be qualified to Vote at the Election of Members of the Legislative Assembly in the year 18 for the Electoral District of [within the Division of Dated this 1. A.B. Electoral Registrar. Supplementary list. List obtainable on payment of fee. Lists to be exposed. Objections to names on lists. Brown, William M. 321 George street, Clerk Brisbane Smith, Mary F. 93 Grosvenor Cres- Music teacher cent, Brisbane Allot. 10, section And such list shall be the annual electoral list for such district. 4 Aug., 1903 17 Sept., 1904 17. The bi-monthly electoral list compiled in the month of October in each year as hereinafter provided shall be the supplementary annual electoral list for the district. 18. The electoral registrar shall forthwith cause copies to be printed or fairly written of such lists, and shall deliver a copy to any person requiring the same, on payment of a reasonable fee therefor. 19. The electoral registrar shall, not later than the first day of September in every year in the case of the annual list, and not later than the tenth day of October in the case of the supplementary list, expose or cause to be exposed to public view one of such copies at every courthouse in the district to which such list refers, and at such post-offices and other places as the Principal Electoral Registrar may direct, and the annual list shall remain so exposed for a period of not less than thirty days, and the supplementary list for a period of not less than fifteen days. 20. Any person named in any electoral roll for the time being in force in any district objecting to any other person as not entitled to have his name retained on any electoral list for such district, may, on or before the first day of October in every year in the case of an annual list, and on or before the twenty-fifth day of October in the case of a supplementary list, give or transmit by post to the electoral registrar, and to the person objected to at his address as inserted in the list, a notice in writing according to the following form:- To the Electoral Registrar for the District of I hereby give you notice that I object to the name of C.D. being retained on the Dated the day of 18. (Signed) A.B. * Form repealed and new form substituted by section 2 of the Act of 1897, and the above form substituted by section 9 (7) of the Act of 1905. "Bi-monthly" substituted for "Quarterly" by section 6 of the Act of 1897. I Words " Principal Electoral Registrar" substituted for Minister" by section 5 of the |