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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 100

Claims for age 16 enrolment

  (1)   A person who:

  (a)   has turned 16, but is under 18, years of age; and

  (b)   would be entitled, in respect of residence at an address, to be enrolled for a Subdivision if he or she were 18 years of age;

may send or deliver a claim to have his or her name placed on the Roll for that Subdivision to the Electoral Commissioner.

  (2)   A claim made under subsection   (1) shall be treated as a claim for enrolment for the Subdivision to which the claim relates and the provisions of sections   102, 103 and 104 apply in relation to the claim as if the person making the claim were 18 years of age and the claim were made pursuant to section   101.

  (3)   For the purposes of sections   389 and 390, a claim made under subsection   (1) shall be taken to be a claim for enrolment.


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