Queensland Numbered Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2014 NO. 44

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Contents
           Part 1--Preliminary
   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
           Part 2--Amendment of City of Brisbane Act 2010
   3.      Act amended
   4.      Amendment of s 154 (Disqualification of prisoners)
   5.      Amendment of s 216 (Administrators who act honestly and without negligence are protected from liability)
   6.      Amendment of sch 1 (Dictionary)
           Part 3--Amendment of Local Government Act 2009
   7.      Act amended
   8.      Amendment of s 154 (Disqualification of prisoners)
   9.      Amendment of s 235 (Administrators who act honestly and without negligence are protected from liability)
   10.     Omission of ss 260A–260E
           11. Amendment of s 260F (Implementation)
           12. Amendment of sch 4 (Dictionary)
           Part 4--Amendment of Local Government Electoral Act 2011
   13.     Act amended
   14.     Amendment of s 7 (Meaning of conclusion of local government election)
   15.     Replacement of s 9 (Returning officers)
   16.     Insertion of new s 9A
           17. Amendment of s 10 (Assistant returning officers)
   18.     Amendment of s 11 (Presiding officers)
   19.     Amendment of s 12 (Issuing officers)
   20.     Insertion of new ss 12A and 12B
           21. Amendment of pt 3, hdg (Voters rolls)
   22.     Insertion of pt 3, div 1, hdg
   23.     Amendment of s 17 (Returning officer must compile voters roll)
   24.     Amendment of s 18 (Cut off day for compiling voters roll)
   25.     Amendment of s 19 (Requirements of voters roll)
   26.     Amendment of s 21 (Supply of voters roll to candidates)
   27.     Insertion of new pt 3, div 2
   28.     Insertion of new s 24A
           29. Amendment of s 25 (Calling for nominations)
   30.     Amendment of s 27 (How and when nomination takes place)
   31.     Amendment of s 28 (Grounds for deciding a person is not properly nominated)
   32.     Omission of s 31 (Certification of nominations)
   33.     Amendment of s 32 (Announcement of nominations)
   34.     Amendment of s 39 (Deposit to accompany nomination)
   35.     Amendment of s 40 (Disposal of deposits generally)
   36.     Amendment of s 41 (Record of membership in group of candidates)
   37.     Amendment of s 45 (Direction that poll be conducted by postal ballot)
   38.     Amendment of s 46 (Kinds of polling booths)
   39.     Amendment of s 49 (Declaration of mobile polling booths)
   40.     Amendment of s 50 (Declaration of early polling booths)
   41.     Amendment of s 51 (Duty of person in charge of institution)
   42.     Amendment of s 55 (Requirements of ballot papers)
   43.     Amendment of s 56 (Ballot papers for separate polls)
   44.     Amendment of s 58 (Distribution of ballot papers)
   45.     Replacement of ss 59–62
           46. Amendment of s 59 (Scrutineers)
           47. Amendment of s 64 (Who may vote)
   48.     Amendment of s 65 (System of voting)
   49.     Amendment of s 67 (Ways in which to cast votes)
   50.     Amendment of s 68 (Who may cast votes in particular ways)
   51.     Amendment of s 69 (Who must complete a declaration envelope)
   52.     Amendment of s 70 (Casting an ordinary vote)
   53.     Omission of s 71 (Casting a pre-poll vote)
   54.     Amendment of s 72 (Casting a postal vote)
   55.     Amendment of s 73 (Voting hours for polling booths)
   56.     Amendment of s 75 (Particular responsibilities of issuing officers when electors cast ordinary or pre-poll votes)
   57.     Insertion of new pt 4, div 5, sdiv 2A
   58.     Amendment of s 77 (Arrangements for electoral visitor voting)
   59.     Amendment of s 78 (Help for electors voting)
   60.     Amendment of s 79 (Applications to cast postal votes in local government elections that are not postal ballot elections)
   61.     Amendment of s 80 (Distribution of ballot papers to electors for postal ballot elections)
   62.     Amendment of s 81 (Applications to cast postal votes in postal ballot elections)
   63.     Amendment of s 82 (Distribution of ballot papers to particular electors whose address has been omitted from a voters roll)
   64.     Amendment of s 83 (How electors must record a vote on a ballot paper—optional-preferential voting)
   65.     Amendment of s 84 (How electors must record a vote on a ballot paper—first-past-the-post voting)
   66.     Amendment of s 86 (Formal and informal ballot papers—optional-preferential voting)
   67.     Amendment of s 87 (Formal and informal ballot papers—first-past-the-post voting)
   68.     Amendment of s 89 (Preliminary processing of declaration envelopes—general)
   69.     Omission of s 90 (Preliminary processing of declaration envelopes—postal ballot election)
   70.     Amendment of s 92 (Preliminary counting of ordinary votes)
   71.     Omission of s 94 (Receipt of things given to returning officer)
   72.     Insertion of new s 96A
           73. Amendment of s 98 (Counting of votes for first-past-the-post system)
   74.     Amendment of s 100 (Notifying the results of an election)
   75.     Amendment of s 103 (Notice to electors whose ballot papers are not accepted)
   76.     Omission of s 113 (Disclosure period for candidates who are councillors)
   77.     Amendment of s 114 (Disclosure period for candidates who were previously candidates in a local government election)
   78.     Amendment of s 115 (Disclosure period for new candidates)
   79.     Amendment of s 116 (Disclosure period for groups of candidates)
   80.     Insertion of new s 116A
           81. Amendment of s 117 (Gifts to candidates)
   82.     Amendment of s 118 (Gifts to groups of candidates)
   83.     Amendment of s 120 (Loans to candidates or groups of candidates)
   84.     Amendment of s 122 (Electoral commission to give reminder notice to candidates)
   85.     Amendment of s 123 (Definition for div 4)
   86.     Amendment of s 124 (Third party expenditure for political activity)
   87.     Amendment of s 125 (Gifts received by third parties to enable expenditure for political activity)
   88.     Amendment of s 128 (Register of gifts)
   89.     Insertion of new pt 6, div 6A
   90.     Replacement of s 131 (Statement about returns)
   91.     Amendment of s 134 (Noncompliance with part does not affect election)
   92.     Omission of s 135 (Definitions for div 1)
   93.     Amendment of s 138 (Requirements for an application to be effective)
   94.     Amendment of s 145 (Restrictions on particular orders)
   95.     Omission of s 160 (Evidentiary value of list under s 164)
           96. Amendment of s 163 (Evidentiary provisions)
   97.     Omission of s 164 (List of electors failing to vote)
   98.     Replacement of s 165 (Notice about failure to vote)
   99.     Amendment of s 166 (Payments for failure to vote)
   100.    Omission of s 167 (Recording response to notice)
   101.    Amendment of s 168 (Failure to vote)
   102.    Amendment of s 169 (False or misleading information)
   103.    Amendment of s 173 (Obstructing electors)
   104.    Amendment of s 175 (Forged electoral papers)
   105.    Insertion of new s 176A
           106. Amendment of s 177 (Author of election material must be named)
   107.    Amendment of s 178 (Distribution of how-to-vote cards)
   108.    Amendment of s 179 (Giving of how-to-vote cards to returning officer)
   109.    Amendment of s 185 (Canvassing in or near polling booths)
   110.    Amendment of s 191 (Failure to post, fax or deliver documents for someone else)
   111.    Amendment of s 201 (Designated election offences and application of Criminal Code)
   112.    Amendment of sch (Dictionary)
           Part 5--Minor and consequential amendments
   113.    Acts amended
           SCHEDULE 1 -- MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS