Electoral Regulation 2024

This regulation may be cited as the Electoral Regulation 2024.

This regulation commences on 1 September 2024.

For section 58(3)(e) of the Act, the other information prescribed for each person is the date the person is enrolled on the electoral roll.

For section 58(7) of the Act, the following government entities are prescribed—

Brisbane City Council;

Gold Coast City Council;

Ipswich City Council;

Logan City Council;

Residential Tenancies Authority;

the department in which the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 is administered.

For section 61(1) of the Act, table, item 7, column 4, paragraph (b) and item 8, column 4, paragraph (b), the price for a copy of the most recent version of the entire electoral roll and changes to the most recent version of the entire electoral roll for a calendar year is the sum of—

507.30 fee units; and

37.75 fee units for each 1,000 (or part of 1,000) electors enrolled for the local government area on 31 August immediately before the local government requests the information.

Subsection (3) applies for working out the amount of a price for supplying information about the electoral rolls under this section.

For the purpose of the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 48C(3), the amount is to be rounded—

if the result is not more than $100—to the nearest multiple of 5 cents (rounding one-half upwards); or

if the result is more than $100 but not more than $1,000—to the nearest multiple of 10 cents (rounding one-half upwards); or

if the result is more than $1,000 but not more than $5,000—to the nearest dollar (rounding one-half upwards).

Example for paragraph (a)—

Subsection (1)(b) prescribes an amount of 37.75 fee units. If the value of a fee unit for this regulation were $1.50, the number of dollars obtained by multiplying $1.50 by 37.75 would be $56.625. Because $56.625 is halfway between $56.60 and $56.65, it is rounded upwards, so the amount would be $56.65.

For schedule 1 of the Act, definition publicly available part, paragraph (b), the following information about a person whose name is on the electoral roll is prescribed to be restricted information—

the person’s sex, occupation and date of birth;

the date the person is enrolled on the electoral roll.

For section 121A(c) of the Act, each of the following classes of electors are prescribed—

special postal voters who are not detained in lawful custody;

distance voters;

out-of-State voters.

In this section—

distance voter—

means an elector, other than a special postal voter or out-of-State voter, whose address, as shown on an electoral roll, is more than 20km by the nearest practicable route from a polling booth; and

if the election is a by-election—also means an elector, other than a special postal voter or out-of-State voter, who can not, for another reason, vote at a polling booth during the voting period for the by-election.Example of an elector for paragraph (b)—

an elector who will be absent from the elector’s electoral district for the whole of the voting period for the by-election

out-of-State voter, for an election, means an elector who is not in Queensland at any time during the voting period.

voting period, for an election, means the period—

starting on the first day that a pre-poll ordinary vote may be made for an election; and

ending when ordinary voting hours for the election ends.

For section 121B(3)(a) of the Act, the procedures set out in the document called ‘Procedure for electronically assisted voting for State elections, version 4.0’, made by the commission on 14 December 2023, are approved.

Note—

Under section 121B(3)(c) of the Act, the procedures must be published on the commission’s website.

For section 197 of the Act, definition auditor, paragraph (a), the qualifications prescribed are any of the following—

registration as an auditor under the Corporations Act;

membership of CPA Australia Ltd ACN 008 392 452 and an entitlement to use the letters ‘CPA’ or ‘FCPA’;

membership of the Institute of Public Accountants Ltd ACN 004 130 643 and an entitlement to use the letters ‘MIPA’ or ‘FIPA’;

membership of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand ARBN 084 642 571 and an entitlement to use the letters ‘CA’ or ‘FCA’.

For section 241(1) of the Act, the amount prescribed for definition A is $3m.

For sections 261(2)(c) and 262(2)(c) of the Act, the day or time prescribed for a return about a gift or loan received by a candidate is—

if the gift or loan is received within 7 business days before the polling day for the election—24 hours after the gift or loan is received; or

otherwise—the seventh business day after the day the gift or loan is received.

For section 263(3)(c) of the Act, the day prescribed for a return about a gift received by a third party is the seventh business day after the day the gift is used as mentioned in section 263(2)(b) of the Act.

For section 264(2) of the Act, the day prescribed for a return about a gift made by a third party is the seventh business day after the day the gift is made.

For section 264(5) of the Act, the day prescribed is—

for the gift (the threshold gift) that first causes the gifts made by the third party during the disclosure period for the election to total an amount or value that is equal to or more than the gift threshold amount, and for each gift made before the threshold gift is made—the seventh business day after the day the threshold gift is made; and

for each subsequent gift—the seventh business day after the day the gift is made.