This regulation may be cited as the Local Government Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2016 .
This regulation amends the Local Government Electoral Regulation 2012 .
3Amendment of s 3 (Electors who may cast an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 68(5B)(c))
Section 3(2)—
omit, insert—(2)In this section—distance voter—(a)means an elector, other than a special postal voter, whose address, as shown on the voters roll, is more than 20km by the nearest practicable route from a polling booth; and(b)if the election is a by-election—also means an elector who can not, for another reason, vote at a polling booth during the voting period for the by-election.Examples of an elector for paragraph (b)—
•an elector who will be absent from the elector’s local government area or division of the local government area for the whole of the voting period for the by-election•an elector who, during the voting period for the by-election, has not yet voted and will be outside Queensland for the remainder of the voting periodvoting period, for a by-election, means the period—(a)starting on the first day that a pre-poll vote may be made for the by-election; and(b)ending on the close of the poll for the by-election.
4Amendment of s 4 (Approval of procedure for electronically assisted voting—Act, s 75A(3)(a))
Section 4, ‘8 September 2015’—
omit, insert—15 June 2016