Western Australian Numbered Acts

ELECTORAL AMENDMENT ACT 2000 (NO. 36 OF 2000) - SECT 28

28 .         Various provisions as to Registrars and their functions amended

        (1)         Amendments are made as set out in the Table to this subsection.

Table of amendments

s. 4(1)	Delete the definition of “Registrar”.
s. 6(1)	Delete “Registrars”, insert instead — “ enrolment officers ”.
s. 6(2)	Delete “a Registrar”, insert instead — “ an enrolment officer ”. Delete “appointed Registrar”, insert instead — “ appointed as an enrolment officer ”.
s. 7	Delete “Registrar or” in both places.
s. 8	Repeal the section.
s. 11	Repeal the section.
s. 20	Repeal the section.
s. 31(2)(b)	Delete “Registrar of a district or sub-district”, insert instead — “ Electoral Commissioner or an enrolment officer ”.
s. 31A(3)	Delete “Registrar for the district or sub-district for which that person is enrolled to remove the name of the person”, insert instead — “ name of the person to be removed ”.
s. 31B(2)(b)	Delete “a Registrar”, insert instead — “ the Electoral Commissioner ”.
s. 32	Repeal the section.
s. 33	Repeal the section.
s. 36	Repeal the section.
s. 37	After “prepared” insert — “ by enrolment officers ”.
s. 39	After “prepared” insert — “ , by enrolment officers under the supervision of the Electoral Commissioner, ”.
s. 40(2)	Delete “Registrar for the district for which the roll is being prepared”, insert instead — “ enrolment officer preparing a roll for a district ”.
s. 41	Delete “the Registrars”, insert instead — “ enrolment officers ”.
s. 42(c)	Delete the paragraph, insert instead — “             (c)         is to be sent to the Electoral Commissioner who shall cause the claim, and any request lodged with it under section 51B(1), to be referred to and recorded by an enrolment officer (in this Division and section 47 called "the enrolment officer"). ”.
s. 44A(2)	Delete “filed in the Registrar’s office under section 32”.
s. 45(1)	Delete “Registrar of the district or sub-district for which he is entitled to be enrolled”, insert instead — “ Electoral Commissioner ”.
s. 45(2)	Delete “Registrar of the district or sub-district”, insert instead — “ Electoral Commissioner ”.
s. 45(4)	Delete the subsection, insert instead — “ (4)         The Electoral Commissioner or the enrolment officer shall issue a receipt to an elector for each claim received from the elector. ”.
s. 45(5)	Delete “Registrar keeping the roll on which the person claims to be enrolled”, insert instead — “ Electoral Commissioner for enrolment on the relevant roll ”.
s. 45(6)	Delete “Registrar keeping the roll on which the person is enrolled”, insert instead — “ Electoral Commissioner ”.
s. 48(2)(a) and (b)	Delete “Registrar”, insert instead — “ Electoral Commissioner ”.
s. 48(2)	After paragraph (b) insert — “ (ba)         The Electoral Commissioner shall cause the objection to be referred to an enrolment officer. ”.
s. 51(1)	Repeal the subsection, insert instead — “ (1)         If the name of the same person appears more than once on the same roll, or on more than one district roll, the Electoral Commissioner is to cause all but the latest enrolled name to be removed. ”.
s. 51AA(1)	Delete “remove the name of that elector”, insert instead — “         cause the name of that elector to be removed ”.
s. 51B(2)	Delete “Registrar keeping the roll”, insert instead — “ Electoral Commissioner ”. After “on the roll” insert — “         and the Electoral Commissioner is to cause the request to be referred to an enrolment officer ”.
s. 51B(4)(b)	Delete “made”, insert instead — “ referred ”.
s. 51B(5)	Delete “a Registrar”, insert instead — “ an enrolment officer ”.
s. 51B(7)	Delete “A Registrar for a district or sub-district”, insert instead — “ An enrolment officer ”. Delete “the roll for that district or sub-district”, insert instead — “ a roll ”.
s. 54	Delete “Registrar”, insert instead — “ person ”.
s. 60(1)	After “ascertained” insert — “ and removed from the rolls ”.
s. 60(2)	Repeal the subsection.
s. 62A(1), (2) and (4)	Delete “a Registrar”, insert instead — “ an enrolment officer ”.
s. 62A(3)	Repeal the subsection.
s. 90(1a)(c)	Delete “or the Registrar for any district”.
s. 112(1)	Delete “the Registrar shall provide”. Delete “with a roll”, insert instead — “ shall cause a roll to be provided ”.
s. 122A (1)(a)	Delete subparagraph (i) and “and” after it, insert instead — “ (i)         a duly completed claim for the enrolment of the person in respect of the region of which the district forms part, or the district, was received under section 42 before the close of the roll for the election; and ”.
s. 155(1)	Delete “or Registrar”.
s. 156(15)(b)	Delete “remove, or direct the Registrar to remove, the name of that person”, insert instead — “         cause the name of that person to be removed ”.
s. 194	Delete “Registrar” in both places, insert instead — “ Electoral Commissioner ”.
s. 208(b)	Delete “or the Registrar”.

        (2)         In each place listed in the Table to this subsection “Registrar” is deleted and the following is inserted instead —

                “ enrolment officer ”.

Table of provisions amended

s. 40(3) and (4)

s. 44(2) and (3)

s. 44A(2) (in each of the 4 places), (3), (4) and (5)

s. 46(1), (2) and (3)

s. 47(1), (3) and (3)(a), (b), (ba) (in both places), (c) (in both         places), (d), (e), (f) and (g) (in each place)

s. 48(1)(b) (in the second place), (2)(c), (d), (e)(iii) and (f) and         (3)(a), (b), (ba) (in both places), (c) (in both places), (d) and (e)

s. 51B(4) (in both places), (5) (in the second place) and (7) (in the         second and third places)

s. 62A(1) (in the second place), (2) (in the second place) and         (4) (in the second and third places)

s. 195(1)

        (3)         In each place listed in the Table to this subsection “the Registrar” is deleted and the following is inserted —

                “ an enrolment officer ”.

Table of provisions amended

s. 48(1)(b) (in the first place)

s. 48(3) (in the first place)

s. 49(1)

s. 52(1)

s. 122A(1)(a)(ii)