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ELECTION OF SENATORS AMENDMENT BILL 2007

                  Western Australia


Election of Senators Amendment Bill 2007

                     CONTENTS


1.    Short title                          2
2.    Commencement                         2
3.    The Act amended                      2
4.    Section 3 amended                    2




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                     LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY



    Election of Senators Amendment Bill 2007


                               A Bill for


An Act to amend the Election of Senators Act 1903.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:




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     Election of Senators Amendment Bill 2007



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     1.          Short title
                 This is the Election of Senators Amendment Act 2007.

     2.          Commencement
                 This Act comes into operation as follows:
 5                (a) sections 1 and 2 -- on the day on which this Act
                        receives the Royal Assent;
                  (b) the rest of the Act -- on the day after that day.

     3.          The Act amended
                 The amendments in this Act are to the Election of Senators
10               Act 1903*.
                 [* Reprint 2 as at 16 May 2003.]

     4.          Section 3 amended
                 Section 3(1) is repealed and the following subsections are
                 inserted instead --
15          "
                 (1)   The date fixed for the close of the rolls shall be the
                       third working day after the date of the writ.
                       Note: The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 provides that names
                             cannot be added to or removed from the rolls after the date of
20                           the writ except in very limited circumstances.

                (1a)   In subsection (1) --
                       "working day" has the meaning given in the
                            Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 section 155(2).
                                                                                              ".

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