Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ELECTORAL AND ROAD SAFETY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 43 OF 2023)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Name of Act  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Legislation amended  
   4.      Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code  
   5.      Meaning of address—pt 7  
   6.      Register of political parties  
   7.      Application for registration of political party  
   8.      Section 89 (1) (f)  
   9.      Notification and publication of applications  
   10.     Refusal of applications for registration  
   11.     New section 93 (2) (g) (iii)  
   12.     New section 93 (2A) and (2B)  
   13.     Objection to continued use of name  
   14.     Section 95A (3)  
   15.     Information about political parties  
   16.     New section 105A  
   17.     Place and hour of nomination  
   18.     Section 110  
   19.     Section 110A heading  
   20.     Section 110A (1) and (2)  
   21.     Ballot papers  
   22.     Printing of ballot papers  
   23.     Section 116 (2) to (4)  
   24.     Division 9.3 heading  
   25.     New sections 118AA and 118AB  
   26.     Security of electronic voting devices and computer  
   27.     Section 120  
   28.     Procedures for voting  
   29.     Claims to vote  
   30.     Applications for postal voting papers  
   31.     Section 136A (9)  
   32.     Sections 136B and 136C  
   33.     Definitions for div 10.5  
   34.     New section 149B  
   35.     New section 150A  
   36.     Functions of visiting officers  
   37.     Section 151 (2)  
   38.     Section 152  
   39.     Custody of ballot boxes and electoral papers  
   40.     Assistance to voters  
   41.     Section 156 (4) (e)  
   42.     Suspension and adjournment of polling  
   43.     New section 160A  
   44.     Scrutiny  
   45.     Preliminary scrutiny of declaration voting papers  
   46.     Section 179 (5)  
   47.     Section 179 (6)  
   48.     Formality of ballot papers  
   49.     First count—electronic ballot papers  
   50.     Recount of electronic scrutiny of ballot  
   51.     Definitions for pt 14  
   52.     Appointed agents  
   53.     Section 203 (3)  
   54.     Registers of reporting agents  
   55.     Section 205 (4), note  
   56.     New section 205C  
   57.     Entitlement to funds  
   58.     Sections 216 and 216A  
   59.     Disclosure of gifts by non-party candidates  
   60.     Section 220 (3) (d)  
   61.     Application—div 14.4A  
   62.     New section 222A (3)  
   63.     Definitions—div 14.4A  
   64.     Ban on gifts from property developers etc—$250 or  
   65.     New section 222G (4) (aa) and (ab)  
   66.     Declaration that corporation not a property  
   67.     Section 222K (3)  
   68.     Section 222K (5) (b)  
   69.     Section 222K (6)  
   70.     New division 14.4B  
   71.     New section 232 (3) (ba)  
   72.     Section 232 (5), new definitions  
   73.     New section 243AA  
   74.     Validity may be disputed after election  
   75.     Section 292  
   76.     Section 293A  
   77.     Responses to official questions  
   78.     Interpretation for sch 4  
   79.     Dictionary, definition of approved computer program  
   80.     Dictionary, new definition of approved electronic device  
   81.     Dictionary, definition of declaration voting papers, paragraph  
   82.     Dictionary, definition of declaration voting papers, paragraph  
   83.     Dictionary, definition of OIC, new paragraph (c)  
   84.     Offence—fail to comply with code of practice  
   85.     New section 28 (3)  
   86.     Removal of non-compliant electoral advertising signs by  
   87.     Section 105A (5), definition of electoral matter and note  
   88.     Schedule 1, part 1.12A, new item 324A  
   89.     Application—pt 12—bicycles  
   90.     New division 12.12A  
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           SCHEDULE 2
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