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CLAUSE NOTES
Electoral Amendment (Legislative Council Ballot Papers) Bill 2010
Clause 1: provides, as a convenient and standard drafting measure, for the short
title of the Bill.
Clause 2: provides for the commencement of the Bill (on Royal Assent); there
does not seem to be any legal, practical or other reason why the Act
should not be able to commence on that date
Clause 3: provides, as a convenient and standard drafting measure, for the
proposed amended Act the Electoral Act 2004 to be referred to in
the amending legislation as the Principal Act; there are sound
legislative drafting and EnAct processing reasons for so providing
Clause 4: provides for the amendment of section 77 of the Electoral Act 2004.
Generally speaking the amendment will require a nomination for a
Council election to include a statement by the nominee as to whether
he or she wishes to be identified as an independent
Clause 5: provides for the amendment of section 81 of the Electoral Act 2004.
Generally speaking the amendment will require that, where a
candidate has stated that he or she wishes to be identified as an
independent, then that is to be indicated on the ballot paper
Clause 6: provides for the amendment of section 98 of the Electoral Act 2004.
Generally speaking it will require ballot papers to be so assigned to
reflect the reforms proposed by clauses 4 and 5
Clause 7: provides for the insertion of a new section 244A into the Electoral
Act 2004 so as to ensure that the changes proposed will not
administratively disrupt any Council election that may be in train
when and if the proposed changes take effect
Clause 8: provides, as a convenient and now almost standard drafting measure,
for the automatic repeal of this prospective amending Act after it has
done its work
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the aim being, in crude terms, to ensure that, as far as possible, the
State's legislative database, when searched at the "current
timepoint", is populated mainly by principal legislation and that
Tasmanians do not have to trawl through long lists of spent
amending legislation when trying to ascertain the law
noting that all spent amending legislation will always be accessible
on the database as sessional (i.e. historical) versions
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