Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS (NO. 2 OF 1995)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      These Regulations may be cited as the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Regulations.  
   2.      These Regulations commence on the day on which they are notified in the Gazette.  
   3.      In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—“referendum” means the referendum to be held in relation to the Bill for an Act to entrench the principles of the proportional representation (Hare-Clark) electoral system, being the Bill by that title passed by the Legislative Assembly on 8 December 1994; “the Act” means the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1994.  
   4.      The ballot paper for the referendum shall be in the form set out in the Schedule.  
   5.      For the purposes of the scrutiny of the referendum—  
   6.      For the purposes of paragraph 151 (1) (b) of the Electoral Act as applied by section 12 of the Act, a visiting officer shall, when visiting under section 150 of the Electoral Act for the purposes of the referendum, take any additional material made available for the purposes of that referendum by a person who—  
   7.      For the purposes of paragraph 14 (3) (c) of the Act, a person who was an MLA on 8 December 1994 is authorised to request a recount of ballot papers in relation to the referendum.  
   8.      A person who was an MLA on 8 December 1994 may appoint a scrutineer or scrutineers for the purposes of the referendum.  
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