Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 10

10. (1) Section 26 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section
is substituted: Subdivisions

''26. (1) The Electoral Commission may, by notice published in the Gazette -

   (a)  divide a Division into such Subdivisions (if any) as are specified and
        set out the boundaries of each Subdivision so specified; and

   (b)  divide the Northern Territory into such Districts as are specified and
        set out the boundaries of each District so specified.

''(2) The Electoral Commission may, by notice published in the Gazette,
declare a Subdivision of a Division or a District of the Northern Territory to
be a remote Subdivision for the purposes of this Act.''.

(2) A Subdivision within the meaning of the Principal Act as in force
immediately before the date of commencement of this section constitutes, on
and after that date, a Subdivision for the purposes of the Principal Act as
amended by this Act as if it had been specified, and its boundaries set out,
in a notice published by the Australian Electoral Commission in the Gazette in
pursuance of sub-section 26 (1) of that Act as so amended.

(3) A Subdivision that is a remote Subdivision within the meaning of the
Principal Act as in force immediately before the date of commencement of this
section constitutes, on and after that date, a remote Subdivision for the
purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act as if it had been
declared to be a remote Subdivision in a notice published by the Australian
Electoral Commission in the Gazette in pursuance of sub-section 26 (2) of that
Act as so amended.

(4) A District of the Northern Territory within the meaning of regulations
that were in force under the Northern Territory Representation Act 1922
immediately before the date of commencement of this section constitutes, on
and after that date, a District of the Northern Territory for the purposes of
the Principal Act as amended by this Act as if that District had been
specified, and its boundaries set out, in a notice published by the Australian
Electoral Commission in the Gazette in pursuance of sub-section 26 (1) of that
Act as so amended.