Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) In this section
—
certain document means a claim, nomination,
application, notice, objection or other communication that is required or
permitted to be transmitted to the Electoral Commissioner or any other officer
under —
(a) Part
IIIA, IV or VI; or
(b) any
other provision of the Act as is prescribed;
transmitted includes sent, given, made, forwarded
by post, delivered to or lodged with.
(2) If the Electoral
Commissioner has established procedures for the electronic transmission and
recording of data for certain documents, or a case or class of cases of such
documents then, despite anything else in this Act, a document transmitted in
accordance with those procedures is to be taken to be transmitted under this
Act.
(3) If, under this
Act, a certain document is required to be signed by a person, then, despite
anything else in this Act, that requirement is to be taken to be satisfied in
respect of an electronically transmitted document if procedures established
under subsection (2) by the Electoral Commissioner include a method to be used
to —
(a)
identify the person transmitting the document; and
(b)
indicate the person’s intention in respect of the information
communicated in the document,
and that method is
complied with.
[Section 211A inserted: No. 35 of 2012 s. 6.]