Australian Capital Territory

Electoral Regulations 1993
in force under the
Electoral Act 1992
Republication No 4B
As in force on 2 November 2000
Includes all amendments up to Subordinate Law 2000 No 43

Prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
This republication is not an authorised republication for the Legislation (Republication) Act 1996.
As in force on
2 November 2000

Australian Capital Territory

Electoral Regulations 1993
in force under the
Electoral Act 1992
CONTENTS
	Page
		Name of regulations	1
	2	Commencement	1
	3	Interpretation	1
		Use of roll information for cancer register	2
	5A	Declaration ballot papers	2
	6	Prescribed classes of items	2
ENDNOTES
	1	About this republication	4
	2	About the republished subordinate law	4
	3	Abbreviation key	4
	4	Table of legislation	6
	5	Table of amendments	6
	6	Table of earlier republications	8

As in force on
2 November 2000

Australian Capital Territory

Electoral Regulations 1993
in force under the
Electoral Act 1992
1 	Name of regulations
	These regulations are the Electoral Regulations 1993.
2 	Commencement
	These regulations commence on the day on which they are notified in the Gazette.
3 	Interpretation
	In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
Act means the Electoral Act 1992.
City of Canberra Arms has the same meaning as in the City of Canberra Arms Act 1932.
government agency has the same meaning as in subsection 3 (1) of the Public Sector Management Act 1994.
4 	Use of roll information for cancer register
(1) 	For section 65 (Provision of roll information to prescribed authorities) of the Act—
	(a)	the chief health officer is a prescribed authority; and
	(b)	assisting the chief health officer to maintain the cancer register under regulation 46 of the Public Health Regulations 2000 is a prescribed purpose.
(2) 	The chief health officer may give roll information to another person or entity if the only use of the information authorised by the chief health officer is to assist the chief health officer to maintain the cancer register.
(3) 	A person or entity given roll information by the chief health officer may only use the information to assist the chief health officer to maintain the cancer register.
(4) 	In this regulation:
roll information means a copy of a roll or of information contained on a roll.
5A 	Declaration ballot papers
	The heading to be printed or endorsed on a ballot paper to be used for declaration voting shall be the heading to a ballot paper set out in Schedule 1 to the Act modified by inserting Declaration above Ballot paper.
6 	Prescribed classes of items
(1) 	For the purposes of paragraph 295 (d) of the Act, the following classes of items are prescribed:
	(a)	letters from an MLA which include the name of the MLA and an indication that he or she is an MLA; 
	(b)	press releases published by or on behalf of an MLA which include the name of the MLA and an indication that he or she is an MLA.
	(c)	reports under the Annual Reports (Government Agencies) Act 1995; 
	(d)	subject to subregulation (2), publications of a government agency that include—
	(i)	the name of the agency;
	(ii)	the City of Canberra Arms; and
	(iii)	the words ‘Australian Capital Territory’, ‘Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly’, ‘ACT Legislative Assembly’, ‘Australian Capital Territory Government’ or ‘ACT Government’.
(2) 	The reference in paragraph (1) (d) to publications does not include a reference to a publication that is published for the first time within 6 months prior to a general election if the publication includes a picture of an MLA.

ENDNOTES
1	About this republication
This is a republication of the Electoral Regulations 1993 as in force under the Electoral Act  1992  on 2 November 2000.  It includes all amendments made to the regulations up to Subordinate Law 2000 No 43.
Amending laws are annotated in the table of legislation and table of amendments.
The Parliamentary Counsel’s Office currently prepares 2 kinds of republications of ACT laws:  authorised printed republications to which the Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 applies and unauthorised electronic republications.  The status of a republication appears on its cover and from its republication number.
A republication number without a letter (eg 1, 2, 3 etc) indicates that the republication is an authorised printed republication.  A number with a letter (eg 1A, 1B, 1C etc) indicates that the republication is an unauthorised electronic republication.
Section 13 of the Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 authorises the Parliamentary Counsel, in preparing a law for republication, to make textual amendments of a formal nature which the Parliamentary Counsel considers desirable in accordance with current legislative drafting practice.  The amendments do not effect a substantive change in the law.
In preparing this republication, amendments have not been made under section 13.
Not all amendments made under section 13 are annotated in the table of amendments.  Full details of any amendments can be obtained from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.
2	About the republished subordinate law
The Electoral Regulations 1993 were originally the Electoral Regulations.  They were renamed by the Electoral Regulations Amendment 2000 No 43 (see reg 4).
3	Abbreviation key
Key to abbreviations in tables

am = amended
amdt = amendment
ch = chapter
cl = clause
def = definition
dict = dictionary
div = division
exp = expires/expired
Gaz = Gazette
hdg = heading
ins = inserted/added
LR = Legislation (Republication) Act 1996
mod = modified
No = number
notfd = notified
o = order
om = omitted/repealed
orig = original
p = page
par = paragraph
pres = present
prev = previous
(prev...) = previously
prov = provision
pt = part
r = rule/subrule
reg = regulation/subregulation
renum = renumbered
reloc = relocated
R[X] = Republication No
s = section/subsection
sch = schedule
sdiv = subdivision
sub = substituted
SL  = Subordinate Law
sp = spent
*  = SL unless otherwise stated
† = Act or Ordinance unless otherwise stated

4	Table of legislation
Subordinate Law	Year and number*	Gazette
notification	Commencement	Transitional provisions	

Electoral Regulations	1993 No 24	11 June 1993	11 June 1993		
	1994 No 16	17 May 1994	17 May 1994	—	
	1994 No 34	16 Nov 1994	16 Nov 1994	—	
	1995 No 4	12 Jan 1995	12 Jan 1995	—	
	1995 No 45	15 Dec 1995	15 Dec 1995	r 3 (2)	
	1997 No 5	25  Mar 1997	25  Mar 1997	—	
	1997 No 28	27 Oct 1997	27 Oct 1997	—	
Remuneration Tribunal (Consequential Amendments) Act 1997
	Act 1997 No 41	19 Sept 1997	ss 1 and 2:  19 Sept 1997
remainder: 23 Sept 1997	—	
	1997 No 34	28 Nov 1997	r 4 (b):  1 Dec 1997
remainder:  28 Nov 1997
	—	
	2000 No 43	2 Nov 2000	2 Nov 2000
	—	
5	Table of amendments

Provision	How affected*

hdg to pt 1	ins 1994 No 39
	om 2000 No 43 reg 3
reg 1	sub 2000 No 43 reg 4
reg 3	am 1997 No 34
hdg to pt 2	ins 1994 No 39
pt 2 (regs 3A, 4, 5)	om Act 1997 No 41
reg 3A	ins 1997 No 5
	om Act 1997 No 41
reg 4	sub 1994 No 16
	am 1995 No 45; 1997 No 5
	om Act 1997 No 41
	ins 2000 No 43 reg 5
reg 5	am. 1994 No 16
	om Act 1997 No 41
hdg to pt 2A	om 2000 No 43 reg 6
pt 2A (reg 5A)	ins 1995 No 4
reg 5A	ins1995 No 4
pt III (reg 6)	ins 1994 No 39
	om 1997 No 5
reg 6	ins 1994 No 39
	om 1997 No 5
hdg to pt 3	om 2000 No 43 reg 6
pt 3 (reg 6)	ins 1997 No 28
reg 6	ins 1997 No 28
	am 1997 No 34

6	Table of earlier republications
Republication No	Amendments  to	Republication date	
(1)	SL 1995 No 4	31 January 1995	
(2)	SL 1997 No 5	31 March 1997	
(3)	SL 1997 No 34	31 December 1997	
4	SL 1997 No 34	31 August 1999	
4A	SL 1997 No 34	31 August 1999	

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