Notice of proposed distribution. Objections. Report of Report to be laid Proclamation of N.S. W. ib. s. 16. Fresh distribution. Redistribution. Polling places. and subject thereto the quota of electors shall be the basis for the distribution, and the Commissioner may adopt a margin of allowance, to be used whenever necessary, but in no case shall such quota be departed from to a greater extent than one-fifth more or one-fifth less. 17. Before reporting on the distribution of any State into Divisions the Commissioner shall cause a map of each proposed Division to be exhibited at post-offices in the proposed Division, and shall invite public attention thereto by advertisement in the Gazette. 18. Objections or suggestions in writing may be lodged with the Commissioner not later than thirty days after the first publication of the proposed distribution, and the Commissioner shall consider all objections and suggestions so lodged before making his report. 19. The Commissioner shall forthwith, after the expiration of the thirty days above mentioned, forward to the Minister his report upon the distribution of the State into Divisions, and the number of electors residing in each proposed Division, together with a map. signed by him showing the names and boundaries of each proposed Division. 20. The report and map shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within seven days after its receipt if the Parliament is in session, and if not then within seven days after the commencement of the next session. 21. If both Houses of Parliament pass a resolution approving of any proposed distribution the Governor-General may by proclamation declare the names and boundaries of the Divisions, and such Divisions shall until altered be the Electoral Divisions for the State in which they are situated. 22. If either House of Parliament passes a resolution disapproving of any proposed distribution, or negatives a motion for the approval of any proposed distribution, the Minister may direct the Commissioner to propose a fresh distribution of the State into Divisions. 23. A redistribution of any State into Divisions shall be made in the manner hereinbefore provided whenever directed by the Governor-General by proclamation. PART IV. POLLING PLACES. 24. The Governor-General may, by proclamation— (a) Appoint a chief polling place for each Division; (b) Appoint such other polling places for each Division as he thinks necessary; (c) Declare that any polling place shall cease to be a polling place. Provided that no polling place shall be so closed after the issue of the writ and before the time appointed for its return. polling places. 25. Before any polling place other than the chief polling place is Report as to appointed for any Division the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State shall report to the Minister specifying what polling places are required for the several Divisions in the State to meet the public convenience. 26. The Governor-General may, by the proclamation declaring that any polling place shall cease to be a polling place, or by a subsequent proclamation, direct at what place electors previously entitled to vote thereat may vote. PART V.-ELECTORAL ROLLS. 27. Electoral Rolls of the electors in each State shall be prepared. 28. There shall be a separate Roll for each Division and each Roll shall be divided according to polling places. Where electors polling place abolished. to vote in case Rolls to be prepared. Separate Roll for Divisions. 29. The Rolls for all the Divisions in a State shall together State Roll. form the Electoral Roll for the State. 30. The Rolls may be in the Form A in the Schedule and shall Form of Rolls. contain the particulars indicated in that Form. 31. All persons qualified to vote at any Election for the Senate or House of Representatives, or who would be qualified so to vote if their names were upon a Roll, shall be qualified and entitled to have their names placed upon the Electoral Roll for the Division in which they live, but no person shall be qualified or entitled to have his name placed upon more than one Roll, or upon any Roll other than the Roll for the Division in which he lives. Provided that any senator shall if he so desires be entitled to have his name placed on or retained on the Roll of any one Division of the State he represents instead of the Roll for the Division in which he lives, and that any member of the House of Representatives shall if he so desires be entitled to have his name placed on and retained on the Roll for any Division he represents instead of the Roll for the Division in which he lives. Persons entitled to have their names on Roll. formation of 32. The Commonwealth Electoral Officer for each State shall as Lists for soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act prepare fo Lists of all persons qualified and entitled to have their names placed upon the Roll for the State, specifying in such Lists the particulars required to be specified in the Roll. officers to furnish 33. All officers in the service of the Commonwealth and all Statistical police statistical and electoral officers in the service of any State or local governing body are hereby authorized and required to furnish information. to the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State all such information as he requires to enable him to prepare or revise the Lists. 34. Copies of the Lists so far as they relate to any Electoral Lists to be Division shall be exhibited at such police stations, post offices, State publicly exhibited. Copies to be sent to Registrars. Persons may claim to have schools, and other places within the Division as the Commonwealth Electoral Officer directs and shall remain so exhibited for a period of thirty days. 35. A copy of the List of persons qualified to have their names placed upon an Electoral Roll to vote at any specified polling place shall be forwarded to the Electoral Registrar who is to keep the part of the Roll relating to that polling place. 36. Any person entitled to have his name placed upon the Roll their names put for a Division may claim to have his name placed upon any List for the Division, and the Returning Officer or Electoral Registrar shall place his name on a List for the Division. on the Lists. Officers may add names to List. Special Court of Sittings of Notice of sittings. Objections. 37. Divisional Returning Officers and Electoral Registrars may without claim place on the Lists the names of persons qualified to have their names placed on the Roll for the Division whose names have been omitted therefrom, and may strike off the Lists the names of deceased persons. 38. The Returning Officer for the Division together with- Court of Revision, shall constitute a Special Court of Revision to revise the Lists, and shall sit for that purpose as soon as conveniently may be after the expiration of the thirty days during which the Lists have been exhibited in the Division. 39. The Special Court of Revision may sit at any time between the hours of Seven a.m. and Twelve midnight and at any convenient places within the Division, and shall sit at such times and in such places as may be directed by the Minister, and it shall not be necessary for the same Magistrate or Justices of the Peace to be present at every sitting of the Court. 40. The Returning Officer for the Division shall give at least thirty days public notice, by advertisement in some newspaper or newspapers circulating in the Division, of the times and places fixed for the sitting of the Court of Revision and of the Lists for specified polling places to be revised at the respective sittings of the Court. 41. Any person may by writing object to any name being retained on the Lists on any of the following grounds : (i.) That the person named is not qualified to have his name placed on any Roll; (ii.) That the person named does not live in the Division. Provided that a sum of Five shillings shall be deposited in respect of each objection lodged by any person other than an officer, to be forfeited if the objection is held to be frivolous. 42. Every objection must be lodged with the Returning Officer Time for lodging at least ten days before the date fixed for the sitting of the Special objections. Court of Revision. 43. Notice of every objection stating the grounds shall be served Notice of upon, or sent by post as a registered letter by the Returning Officer objection. to, the person affected. summon witnesses. 44. The Returning Officer may by summons under his hand Power to require any person to appear as a witness before the Special Court. of Revision, and any person served with any such summons and being tendered such expenses as prescribed who fails to obey it without just excuse shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding Ten pounds. 45. The Special Court of Revision shall subject to section thirty- Powers of one revise the Lists for the Division in which it sits by striking out Special Court, the names of all persons shown (a) to be dead; (b) not to be qualified to have their names placed on a Roll; (c) to be disqualified; (d) not to live within the Division; and by adding to the Lists the names of all persons shown to be qualified to have their names placed on the Roll for the Division and generally by correcting mistakes and supplying omissions. to appear. 46. The objector and the person whose name is objected to may Right of parties appear before the Special Court of Revision in person or by an agent to support or resist the objection. If the objector or his agent do not appear the objection shall be deemed to be invalid. costs. 47. If any objection is not established the Court may award to Power to award the person objected to a reasonable sum not exceeding Five pounds for costs, and he may recover the sum so awarded in any civil court as a debt due by the objector. evidence. 48. In revising the Lists the Special Court of Revision shall not Rules of be bound by any rules of evidence, but the Court may inform its mind on any matter in such manner as it thinks proper. 49. When the revision of the Lists is completed the Lists shall on revision Lists be the Roll for the Division. to become Rolls. 50. A new Roll for any Division, or new Rolls for all Divisions New Rolls. in a State, shall be prepared whenever directed by proclamation and in the manner therein specified. W.A. 1899, 51. Each part of the Roll relating to a polling place shall be Arrangement of kept separately in a convenient book, and the surnames of the parts of Rolls. electors on each such part of the Roll shall be arranged in alpha- No. 20 ss. 19-24. betical order according to the first letter of each surname, and blank S. A. 1896, spaces shall be left for additions after each letter. 52. Rolls shall be printed whenever the Minister so directs. No. 667 ss. 35-39. Printing of Rolls. Supplemental W. A. 1899, No. 20 s. 28. S. A. 1896, Inspection. W. A. ib. s. 30. S. A. ib. s. 43. Addition of new names. W. A. ib. s. 32. Forms of claims. Registration of claims. Right to transfer. Form of transfer. Method of transfer. Registration of transfer. Alteration of rolls. W. A. ib, s. 43. 53. Supplemental Rolls, setting out additions and alterations since the last print, shall also be printed immediately after the holding of each Revision Court and immediately previous to a general election. 54. The last printed copies of the Roll for each Division shall be open for public inspection at the chief polling place for the Division without fee and shall be obtainable thereat and at all principal post-offices in the Division on payment of the price prescribed. PART VI.-ADDITIONS TO ROLLS, TRANSFERS, AND 55. New names may be added to Rolls pursuant to- (b) Applications to transfer, (c) Lists prepared by the Returning Officer for each Division. 56. Claims may be in the Form B in the Schedule and shall be signed by the claimant and shall be sent to the Returning Officer or Registrar keeping the part of the Roll for the polling place where the claimant desires to vote. 57. If the claim is in order the Returning Officer or Registrar shall pursuant to the claim immediately enter the claimant's name and the particulars relating to him on the Roll and shall file the claim. 58. Any elector whose name is on the Roll for any Division and who has lived in any other Division for one month may transfer his name to the Roll for the Division in which he lives. 59. Every transfer shall be made by application to transfer in the Form C in the Schedule. 60. The application to transfer shall be signed by the elector in the presence of a witness and sent to the Returning Officer for the Division to which the elector's name is to be transferred. 61. The Returning Officer shall note on the application to transfer the date of its receipt by him and shall file it in his office and shall register it by placing the elector's name on the Roll for the Division, and shall give notice of the transfer to the Returning Officer for the Division from which the elector's name has been transferred, who shall thereupon remove the elector's name from the Roll. 62. Rolls may be altered by the Returning Officer or Electoral Registrar as follows: (i.) By correcting any obvious mistake or omission; (a) The place of living to another within the same |