Regulation‑making power in relation to enrolment
38 Regulation‑making power in relation to enrolment
The Governor may make regulations for and in relation to —
enrolment as an elector; and
compulsory enrolment of persons as electors, including a procedure for imposing and recovery of penalties by the Electoral Commissioner for offences against the compulsory enrolment provisions of this Act; and
anything necessary or convenient to be prescribed for paragraphs (a) and (b).
Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may provide —
subject to subsection (3), that a person entitled to be enrolled must send a claim for enrolment and comply with particular provisions of this Act; and
a penalty not exceeding $50 for the contravention of a regulation made under this section.
Regulations under subsection (1) must not require a person who has sent a claim for enrolment to sign or send in another claim unless the person has changed their primary residential address.
[Section 38 inserted: No. 30 of 2023 s. 29.]
[39. Deleted: No. 30 of 2023 s. 29.]
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