Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 3

3. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended-

         (a)  by omitting the definition of ''Candidate'' and substituting the
following definitions:

'' 'Abbreviation', in relation to the name of a political party, includes an
alternative name of the party;

'' 'Antarctic elector' means an elector who is entitled under Part XIIIA to be
treated as an Antarctic elector;

'' 'Approved' means approved by the Electoral Commission by notice published
in the Gazette;

'' 'Australian Capital Territory' includes the Jervis Bay Territory;

'' 'Compartment', in relation to a polling booth, means a compartment
constructed in the polling booth in pursuance of section 101;'';

   (b)  by inserting after the definition of ''Elector'' the following
        definitions:

'' 'Electoral Commission' means the Australian Electoral Commission
established by section 7;

'' 'Electoral Commissioner' means the Electoral Commissioner referred to in
section 7M;

'' 'Eligible overseas elector' means an elector who is entitled under section
39A or 39B to be treated as an eligible overseas elector;

'' 'General election' means a general election of the members of the House of
Representatives;

'' 'Hospital' includes a convalescent home or an institution similar to a
hospital or to a convalescent home;

'' 'Issuing point', in relation to a polling booth, means a place within the
polling booth at which ballot-papers for the Division in which the polling
booth is situated are issued to persons voting at the booth;

'' 'Itinerant elector' means an elector who is entitled under section 39C to
be treated as an itinerant elector;'';

   (c)  by omitting the definitions of ''Officer'' and ''Registrar'' and
        substituting the following definitions:

'' 'Officer' includes the Electoral Commissioner, an Australian Electoral
Officer for a State or Territory, a Divisional Returning Officer, an Assistant
Returning Officer, an Assistant Divisional Returning Officer, an Antarctic
Returning Officer, an Assistant Antarctic Returning Officer, a Presiding
Officer, a Substitute Presiding Officer, an Assistant Presiding Officer, an
Electoral Visitor, a Mobile Polling Team Leader, a Mobile Polling Team Member
and a Poll Clerk;

'' 'Organization' includes-

   (a)  a body corporate;

   (b)  an association or other body of persons;

   (c)  an association that consists of 2 or more organizations within the
        meaning of the preceding paragraphs; and

   (d)  a part of an organization within the meaning of a preceding paragraph;

'' 'Part', in relation to an organization, includes-

   (a)  a branch or division of the organization; and

   (b)  a part of a part of the organization;

'' 'Permanent Head' means a person who is a Permanent Head under the Public
Service Act 1922;

'' 'Political party' means an organization the object or activity, or one of
the objects or activities, of which is the promotion of the election to the
Senate or to the House of Representatives of a candidate or candidates
endorsed by it;

'' 'Polling booth' means a building, structure, vehicle or enclosure, or a
part of a building, structure, vehicle or enclosure, provided at a polling
place, in pursuance of paragraph 98 (1) (b), for the purpose of taking votes
during polling;

'' 'Polling place' means a place appointed as a polling place in pursuance of
section 27;

'' 'Registered medical practitioner' means a person registered or licensed as
a medical practitioner under the law of a State or Territory, being a law that
provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners;

'' 'Registered officer', in relation to a registered political party, means
the person shown on the Register of Political Parties as the registered
officer of that party;

'' 'Registered political party' means a political party that is registered
under Part IXA;

'' 'Register of Political Parties' means the Register of Political Parties
established under section 58C;'';

         (d)  by omitting ''and Assistant Returning Officer'' from the
definition of ''Returning Officer'' and substituting '', Assistant Returning
Officer and Assistant Divisional Returning Officer'';

   (e)  by inserting after the definition of ''Roll'' the following
        definition:

'' 'Special hospital' means a special hospital within the meaning of section
113C;''; and

   (f)  by adding at the end thereof the following definition and
        sub-sections:

'' 'Territory' means the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern
Territory.

''(2) For the purposes of this Act, an organization shall be taken to endorse
a candidate in an election if a part of the organization, or an organization
of which the first-mentioned organization is a part, endorses the candidate in
that election.

''(3) A reference in this Act to provisional enrolment shall be read as a
reference to enrolment in pursuance of section 41A.

''(4) Where a Division is not divided into Subdivisions, a reference in this
Act to a Subdivision shall, in relation to that Division, be read as a
reference to that Division.

''(5) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-

   (a)  a reference to a Division shall be read as including a reference to
        the Northern Territory; and

   (b)  a reference to a Subdivision shall be read as including a reference to
        a District of that Territory specified in a notice published under
        sub-section 26 (1).''.