Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 43

43 .         Claims of certain Cwlth electors to be taken to be in order

        (1)         In this section —

        claim means a claim made —

            (a)         on or after 21 November 2006; but

            (b)         before commencement day;

        commencement day means the day on which the Electoral Amendment Act 2012 Part 3 Division 1 comes into operation;

        Commonwealth elector means a person enrolled under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 in respect of an address in a Commonwealth subdivision in the State;

        in order means in order for the purposes of section 44A.

        (2)         If a claimant —

            (a)         is a Commonwealth elector on commencement day; and

            (b)         made a claim that was rejected as not in order,

                then, on and after commencement day, the claim is to be taken to be in order if the claim would have been in order had it been made on commencement day.

        [Section 43 inserted: No. 35 of 2012 s. 9.]