Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) In preparing new
rolls —
(a) the
names of all persons who appear to be qualified shall be inserted; and
(b) the
names of all persons —
(i)
who, from information supplied by the Registrar of
Births, Deaths and Marriages, appear to be dead; or
(iia)
who, from information supplied by the chief executive officer (as defined in
the Prisons Act 1981 section 3(1)) appear to be disqualified; or
(ii)
who appear to be otherwise disqualified; or
(iii)
who do not appear to reside in the district for which
they are enrolled,
shall be omitted.
(1a) Subsection
(1)(b)(iii) does not apply to a person whose name is on the existing roll
because of section 17(4), 17A or 17B.
(2) The enrolment
officer preparing a roll for a district shall forthwith give notice to any
person whose name is omitted, if such name appears on an existing roll for the
same district.
(3) If the person to
whom such notice is given makes and sends in a claim to be enrolled, and such
claim appears to the enrolment officer to be in order, he shall enrol the
claimant.
(4) If the enrolment
officer rejects such claim, he shall forthwith give notice thereof to the
claimant, and the claimant may, within the prescribed time, appeal from the
rejection of his claim to the Electoral Commissioner, and the provisions of
Division 4 shall apply.
[Section 40 amended: No. 33 of 1964 s. 15; No. 33
of 1967 s. 4; No. 40 of 1987 s. 30 and 84; No. 69 of 1996 s. 24; No. 40 of
1998 s. 11(a); No. 36 of 2000 s. 28(1) and (2) and 82; No. 64 of 2006 s. 23;
No. 7 of 2009 s. 9; No. 25 of 2014 s. 58; No. 14 of 2016 s. 8.]
[Heading amended: No. 14 of 2016 s. 28(6).]