(1) As soon as
practicable after an application is made to the Electoral Commissioner, the
Electoral Commissioner is to publish a notice in relation to the application
in —
(a) the
Gazette ; and
(b) a
newspaper circulating generally in the State.
(2) Subsection (1)
does not apply if the Electoral Commissioner gives a notice under
section 62F(1) unless and until a request is made under section 62F(3)(b).
(3) The notice has to
—
(a) set
out any information included in the application under section 62E(4)(a) to
(c); and
(b)
invite any elector who believes that the application —
(i)
is not in accordance with section 62E; or
(ii)
should be refused under section 62J,
to submit to the
Electoral Commissioner, within one month after the day of publication of the
Gazette notice, a statement under subsection (4).
(4) The statement has
to —
(a) set
out in detail the grounds for the elector’s belief under subsection
(3)(b); and
(b) set
out the elector’s residential address and postal address; and
(c) be
signed by the elector.
(5) The Electoral
Commissioner is to make the statement available at the office of the Electoral
Commissioner and allow public inspection of the statement without fee.
(6) Unless the
Electoral Commissioner considers the statement to be frivolous the Electoral
Commissioner is to give the applicant —
(a) a
copy of the statement; and
(b) a
notice inviting the applicant to give the Electoral Commissioner a reply to
the statement within such reasonable period as is specified in the notice.
(7) If the applicant
gives the Electoral Commissioner a reply within the period, the Electoral
Commissioner is to make the reply available at the office of the Electoral
Commissioner as soon as practicable and allow public inspection of the reply
without fee.
[Section 62G inserted: No. 36 of 2000 s. 63.]