Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2016

1Short title

This regulation may be cited as the Electoral Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2016 .

2Regulation amended

This regulation amends the Electoral Regulation 2013 .

3Insertion of new s 4AA

Part 3A, before section 4A—
insert—

4AA Electors who may make an electronically assisted vote—Act, s 121A

(1)For section 121A(c) of the Act, each of the following classes of electors are prescribed—

(a)special postal voters;

(b)distance voters.

(2)In this section—

by-election means an election of a member of the Legislative Assembly between general elections.

distance voter—

(a)means an elector, other than a special postal voter, whose address, as shown on an electoral 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 electoral district 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 period

voting period, for a by-election, means the period—

(a)starting on the first day that a pre-poll ordinary vote may be made for the by-election; and

(b)ending when ordinary voting hours for the by-election end.

4Amendment of s 4A (Approval of procedure for electronically assisted voting—Act, s 121B(3)(a))

Section 4A, ‘‘Electronically assisted voting procedures’ made by the commission on 7 January 2015’—
omit, insert—

“‘Electronically assisted voting procedures’ for elections” made by the commission on 15 June 2016