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2022
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
Presented and read a first time
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2022
No. , 2022
(Finance)
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to referendums, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
4............ Disapplication of section 11 of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 2
Schedule 1—Postal voting 3
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 3
Schedule 2—Scrutiny 7
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 7
Schedule 3—Authorisations 11
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 11
Schedule 4—Referendum financial disclosure 18
Part 1—Main amendments 18
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 18
Part 2—Consequential amendments 40
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 40
Part 3—Application provisions 41
Schedule 5—Designated electors 42
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 42
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 43
Schedule 6—Contingency measures 46
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 46
Schedule 7—Modernisation and terminology 50
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 50
Schedule 8—Amendment of references to “ballot-paper” and “ballot-papers” 54
Part 1—Amendment of specific references 54
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 54
Part 2—Bulk amendment of references to “ballot-paper” 55
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 55
Part 3—Bulk amendment of references to “ballot-papers” 60
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 60
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to referendums, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act is the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Act 2022 .
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
4 Disapplication of section 11 of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984
Section 11 of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 does not apply during the period:
(a) beginning on the day this section commences; and
(b) ending on polling day for the first general election of the members of the House of Representatives held after the commencement of this section.