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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 56AA

Inclusion of Territories in Australian Capital Territory Divisions

  (1)   Any distribution or redistribution of the Australian Capital Territory into Electoral Divisions under this Act must be such that the whole of the Jervis Bay Territory is included in one Electoral Division.

  (2)   Until the Electoral Commissioner, under subsection   48(2A), determines that a member of the House of Representatives be chosen in Norfolk Island at a general election, any distribution or redistribution of the Australian Capital Territory into Electoral Divisions under this Act must be such that:

  (a)   the whole of Norfolk Island is included in one Electoral Division; and

  (b)   if there is more than one Electoral Division--Norfolk Island and the Jervis Bay Territory are included in different Electoral Divisions.



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