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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 395

Regulations

    The Governor - General may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to this Act, and in particular:

  (a)   prescribing penalties not exceeding 5 penalty units for any contravention of any regulation made in pursuance of this Act; and

  (b)   prescribing the procedure in relation to the imposition and recovery of penalties for offences against the compulsory enrolment or compulsory voting provisions of this Act; and

  (c)   the grounds upon which postal ballot papers are to be rejected as informal; and

  (d)   requiring electors who are registered in accordance with section   185 as general postal voters for a Division to notify the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of any change in address or of any other circumstances relevant to the elector's registration under that section as a general postal voter for the Division; and

  (e)   providing for how the Commission is to supply goods or services under an arrangement under section   7A.


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