Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 175SF

175SF .         Two or more elections on one day, one return may be lodged in case of

        (1)         Where —

            (a)         the polling at 2 or more elections took place on the same day; and

            (b)         a person would, but for this subsection, be required to lodge 2 or more returns under this Division relating to those elections,

                the person may, in lieu of lodging those returns, lodge one return, in an approved form, setting out the particulars that the person would have been required to set out in those returns.

        (2)         Where —

            (a)         a return is lodged by a person under subsection (1); and

            (b)         particular electoral expenditure details of which are required to be set out in the return relates to more than one election,

                it is sufficient compliance with this Division if the return sets out details of the expenditure without showing the extent to which it relates to any particular election.

        [Section 175SF inserted: No. 75 of 1992 s. 4 (as amended: No. 43 of 1996 s. 26).]

        [Heading inserted: No. 75 of 1992 s. 4 (as amended:
No. 43 of 1996 s. 26).]