Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of each redistribution of a State, there is established by this subsection an augmented Electoral Commission for the State.
(2) The members of an augmented Electoral Commission for a State shall be:
(a) the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission;
(b) the member of the Electoral Commission referred to in paragraph 6(2)(c); and
(c) the members of the Redistribution Committee for the State.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), the performance of the functions, and the exercise of the powers, of an augmented Electoral Commission for a State are not affected by reason only of there being a vacancy or vacancies, or a change or changes, in the membership of the augmented Electoral Commission.
(4) Where, within any period (in paragraph (b) referred to as the relevant period ) of not more than 30 days (being a period after the making under subsection 66(1) of a proposed redistribution of the State by the Redistribution Committee for the State), 2 or more persons who are members of the augmented Electoral Commission die or become unable, by reason of physical or mental incapacity, to serve or continue to serve as members of the augmented Electoral Commission:
(a) the augmented Electoral Commission must reconsider all objections and comments lodged with the Electoral Commission under section 69 in relation to the proposed redistribution, being objections and comments that had previously been considered by the augmented Electoral Commission;
(b) subsection 72(2) has effect as if the reference in
that subsection to 60 days after the expiration of the period referred to in
section 69 were a reference to 60 days after the expiration of the
relevant period.