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<subordleg title="Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 2020" year.published="2020" year.citation="2020" no="215" pco.reg.ref="S20_0231" publication.date="2020-09-18" enabling.title="Electoral Act 1992" enabling.acts="act-1992-028 act-1997-011 act-1999-070 act-1997-011 act-1999-070 act-1997-011 act-1999-070 act-1997-011 act-1999-070 act-1997-011 act-1999-070" sub.leg.type="reg" print.type="published" initial.admin.dept="Department of Justice and Attorney-General" id="sl-2020-0215" version.desc.id="0f77dd5e-f630-4e3f-9d8c-1325bb97c1d7" version.series.id="14ae989f-7bfe-44d7-bf97-e2aa170b71ad" amending="pure" published.how="website" stage.repeal="1"><wrapper><body numbering.style="manual"><part id="pt.1" guid="_1f9926d4-43e7-4377-b478-32d21e8a5595" affected.by.uncommenced="0"><no>Part 1</no><heading id="pt.1-he" guid="_9ba3ac35-5bfd-4317-8a61-e7d86c51dac4">Preliminary</heading><clause id="sec.1" guid="_4bcda2d7-2614-4ad8-8f3b-536d7c81d9a2" provision.type="shorttitle" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>1</no><heading id="sec.1-he" guid="_739baa4a-6585-4c9c-9013-c2f9bf1e700b">Short title</heading><block><txt break.before="1">This regulation may be cited as the <legref type="subordleg" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD"><name emphasis="yes">Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 2020</name></legref>.</txt></block></clause></part><part id="pt.2" guid="_8ed77b82-0e8f-4301-8c84-70990aaa9d2c" affected.by.uncommenced="0"><no>Part 2</no><heading id="pt.2-he" guid="_2acfec78-1af3-491f-976f-5973c76fc919">Amendment of Electoral Regulation 2013</heading><clause id="sec.2" guid="_7e8d2049-b62e-4d41-8bcc-f234a0a097b3" provision.type="commence" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>2</no><heading id="sec.2-he" guid="_eb2d8062-80d2-44f6-8dee-63d5e4b8f2e1">Regulation amended</heading><block><txt break.before="1">This part amends the <legref type="subordleg" target.doc.id="sl-2013-0013" target.version.series="b7e12303-6253-4b7e-ac03-f28f6d5509e3" check="valid" jurisd="QLD"><name emphasis="yes">Electoral Regulation 2013</name></legref>.</txt></block></clause><clause id="sec.3" guid="_90bb4cd1-3a99-469d-b500-5f8cff0f606c" provision.type="amend" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>3</no><heading id="sec.3-he" guid="_17e10f18-8f46-41dd-a25e-4d14eec8a1d9">Replacement of <legref refid="sec.4A" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">s&#160;4A</legref> (Approval of procedures for electronically assisted voting—<legref target.doc.id="act-1992-028" target.version.series="0655eca6-9313-4fe7-8407-7949086443da" check="valid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">Act</legref>, <legref refid="sec.121B" target.doc.id="act-1992-028" target.version.series="0655eca6-9313-4fe7-8407-7949086443da" target.guid="_f492dec5-9dd3-46d2-b6cd-21ecd531b50f" check="valid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">s&#160;121B</legref>)</heading><block><txt break.before="1"><legref refid="sec.4A" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">Section&#160;4A</legref>—</txt><txt break.before="1"><i>omit, insert—</i></txt><fragment auto.number.type="manual" format="fromcontext" style="indent"><clause id="sec.3-frag-sec.4A" guid="_2ded6210-e59a-4258-b524-bf2d245e7e16" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other"><no>4A</no><heading id="sec.3-frag-sec.4A-he" guid="_214a0088-4ebc-4265-b76a-93193ac50ec5">Approval of procedures for electronically assisted voting—Act, s 121B</heading><block><txt break.before="1">For section 121B(3)(a) of the Act, the procedures set out in the document called ‘Procedure for Electronically Assisted Voting for State Elections, Version 3.0’, made by the commission on 10 September 2020, are approved.</txt></block><note id="sec.3-frag-sec.4A-note" guid="_ae8ccf1b-fd6f-457d-8ddb-2e49b8469691" type="example"><heading id="sec.3-frag-sec.4A-note-he" guid="_ba7e726c-d545-41b7-b402-b7c122629b2b">Note—</heading><block><txt break.before="1">Under section 121B(3)(c) of the Act, the procedures must be published on the commission’s website.</txt></block></note></clause></fragment></block></clause><clause id="sec.4" guid="_5dc2fbab-e4bf-43be-b658-0f151af5914f" provision.type="amend" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>4</no><heading id="sec.4-he" guid="_3b4f9b27-e170-43bc-bb19-d26596874567">Replacement of <legref refid="sec.12" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">s&#160;12</legref> (Approval of procedures for electronic lodgement of returns—<legref target.doc.id="act-1992-028" target.version.series="0655eca6-9313-4fe7-8407-7949086443da" check="valid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">Act</legref>, <legref refid="sec.315A" target.doc.id="act-1992-028" target.version.series="0655eca6-9313-4fe7-8407-7949086443da" target.guid="_84dab84a-7894-4968-8497-79d98bc439e5" check="valid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">s&#160;315A</legref>)</heading><block><txt break.before="1"><legref refid="sec.12" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">Section&#160;12</legref>—</txt><txt break.before="1"><i>omit, insert—</i></txt><fragment auto.number.type="manual" format="fromcontext" style="indent"><clause id="sec.4-frag-sec.12" guid="_938a2406-8037-4328-93a5-d0e4bb0d88d5" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other"><no>12</no><heading id="sec.4-frag-sec.12-he" guid="_7f71f33d-1fd7-4c35-add5-47e96f45332b">Approval of procedures for electronic lodgement of returns—Act, s 315A</heading><block><txt break.before="1">For section 315A(2)(a) of the Act, the procedures set out in the document called ‘Procedure for Electronic Lodgement of Returns, Version 2.0’, made by the commission on 1 November 2019, are approved.</txt></block><note id="sec.4-frag-sec.12-note" guid="_342cb939-178f-4d00-8438-2e6280fd6099" type="example"><heading id="sec.4-frag-sec.12-note-he" guid="_134a2b2a-fe30-4b56-9bc8-435653c1e9b2">Note—</heading><block><txt break.before="1">Under section 315A(2)(c) of the Act, the procedures must be published on the commission’s website.</txt></block></note></clause></fragment></block></clause><clause id="sec.5" guid="_4f696071-f80a-404a-96f7-92235669c985" provision.type="amend" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>5</no><heading id="sec.5-he" guid="_5c1aa1e4-9d90-4837-bc42-06c71768e5cd">Replacement of <legref refid="sec.13" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">s&#160;13</legref> (Approval of procedures for counting of absentee votes—<legref target.doc.id="act-1992-028" target.version.series="0655eca6-9313-4fe7-8407-7949086443da" check="valid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">Act</legref>, <legref refid="sec.130A" target.doc.id="act-1992-028" target.version.series="0655eca6-9313-4fe7-8407-7949086443da" target.guid="_2efa636f-f0aa-439b-8a57-eef0b45c340c" check="valid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">s&#160;130A</legref>)</heading><block><txt break.before="1"><legref refid="sec.13" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">Section&#160;13</legref>—</txt><txt break.before="1"><i>omit, insert—</i></txt><fragment auto.number.type="manual" format="fromcontext" style="indent"><clause id="sec.5-frag-sec.13" guid="_3799d87e-53db-4701-933f-17232c3dc405" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other"><no>13</no><heading id="sec.5-frag-sec.13-he" guid="_ba96c99d-2d3e-4199-a13f-d8ecb0952da2">Approval of procedures for counting of absentee votes—Act, s 130A</heading><block><txt break.before="1">For section 130A(3)(a) of the Act, the procedures about how absentee votes at an election are to be counted, set out in the document called ‘Procedures for Counting of Absentee Votes for State Elections and Referendums, Version 1.0’, made by the commission on 21 January 2020, are approved.</txt></block><note id="sec.5-frag-sec.13-note" guid="_274e8d9a-69c1-44b6-92f4-b80df57ea3bf" type="example"><heading id="sec.5-frag-sec.13-note-he" guid="_b67fca34-498e-4f3d-9021-095bcd612a80">Note—</heading><block><txt break.before="1">Under section 130A(3)(c) of the Act, the procedures must be published on the commission’s website.</txt></block></note></clause></fragment></block></clause><clause id="sec.6" guid="_c598d714-afc2-46da-b66e-ef62200ca5d7" provision.type="amend" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>6</no><heading id="sec.6-he" guid="_39a86f12-84dd-46a3-ac8c-003dde4ca811">Insertion of new <legref refid="pt.6A" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">pt&#160;6A</legref> </heading><block><txt break.before="1">After <legref refid="sec.14" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">section&#160;14</legref>—</txt><txt break.before="1"><i>insert—</i></txt><fragment auto.number.type="manual" format="fromcontext" style="indent"><part id="sec.6-frag-pt.6A" guid="_d77061b3-1cc4-40e4-b04a-dfc37298210a" affected.by.uncommenced="0"><no>Part 6A</no><heading id="sec.6-frag-pt.6A-he" guid="_e39a6e3c-7f11-4e43-a389-1e02d7bd8634">2020 general election</heading></part><clause id="sec.6-frag-sec.14A" guid="_8bf14cc5-84f6-4cc2-8ef3-4775e27fff1f" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other"><no>14A</no><heading id="sec.6-frag-sec.14A-he" guid="_7b16de2a-c217-4994-b2e4-933bab790cd2">Declaration</heading><block><txt break.before="1">This part is made under part 12B of the Act.</txt></block></clause><clause id="sec.6-frag-sec.14B" guid="_934d9edd-6591-4a49-9126-1a9047ed16e7" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other"><no>14B</no><heading id="sec.6-frag-sec.14B-he" guid="_11e2fe3b-0893-4b6c-ad18-192d91eb8a4a">Arrangements for postal voting—Act, s 392Y</heading><subclause id="sec.6-frag-sec.14B-ssec.1" guid="_4701a971-ae50-4bab-80d2-14e53380d22c" affected.by.uncommenced="0" provision.type="other"><no>(1)</no><block><txt break.before="0">The commission must, as soon as practicable after the issue of the writ for the 2020 general election, post, deliver or otherwise send a ballot paper and a declaration envelope to an elector registered as a general postal voter under the <legref jurisd="CTH" check="invalid" type="act"><name emphasis="no">Commonwealth Electoral Act</name></legref>, section 184A(2)(b), (c) or (ca).</txt></block></subclause><subclause id="sec.6-frag-sec.14B-ssec.2" guid="_180b8783-4d5c-4169-a1ff-86f44c1a2acb" affected.by.uncommenced="0" provision.type="other"><no>(2)</no><block><txt break.before="0">Subsection (1) does not prevent an elector from voting using another procedure under the Act.</txt></block></subclause></clause></fragment></block></clause></part><part id="pt.3" guid="_a27a1990-d658-4165-93c5-4c21d6b2b730" affected.by.uncommenced="0"><no>Part 3</no><heading id="pt.3-he" guid="_701a94ab-ec6a-4d6d-b9c1-c6b91c557dd4">Amendment of Referendums Regulation 2016</heading><clause id="sec.7" guid="_57174665-9d10-43ca-885f-b37902818ed4" provision.type="commence" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>7</no><heading id="sec.7-he" guid="_13841b2b-527d-4e31-beb4-34d4fca32b1b">Regulation amended</heading><block><txt break.before="1">This part amends the <legref type="subordleg" target.doc.id="sl-2016-0003" target.version.series="f319b7c5-e7a2-41f5-b942-2aedc0972e45" check="valid" jurisd="QLD"><name emphasis="yes">Referendums Regulation 2016</name></legref>.</txt></block></clause><clause id="sec.8" guid="_97bbc518-3e0c-4cf2-baa4-a4f449c5a1bf" provision.type="amend" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>8</no><heading id="sec.8-he" guid="_4f6dfd5b-c9a5-4350-9de7-bc93c77d020c">Omission of <legref refid="sec.3" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">ss&#160;3</legref> and <legref refid="sec.4" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">4</legref></heading><block><txt break.before="1"><legref refid="sec.3" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">Sections&#160;3</legref> and <legref refid="sec.4" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">4</legref>—</txt><txt break.before="1"><i>omit.</i></txt></block></clause><clause id="sec.9" guid="_91d1476f-f1ed-419d-a83d-cbffe0cfe49f" provision.type="amend" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>9</no><heading id="sec.9-he" guid="_fe0a09d6-3273-43d0-99f0-cfbadc8f7903">Insertion of new <legref refid="sec.3" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">s&#160;3</legref></heading><block><txt break.before="1">After <legref refid="sec.2" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">section&#160;2</legref>—</txt><txt break.before="1"><i>insert—</i></txt><fragment auto.number.type="manual" format="fromcontext" style="indent"><clause id="sec.9-frag-sec.3" guid="_0702a6df-e926-4a37-b1d6-7264fc56a720" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other"><no>3</no><heading id="sec.9-frag-sec.3-he" guid="_346c0c04-9ff3-4740-a028-e501d43b9e50">Approval of procedures for counting of absentee votes—Act, s 41A</heading><block><txt break.before="1">For section 41A(3)(a) of the Act, the procedures about how absentee votes at a referendum are to be counted, set out in the document called ‘Procedures for Counting of Absentee Votes for State Elections and Referendums, Version 1.0’, made by the commission on 21 January 2020, are approved.</txt></block><note id="sec.9-frag-sec.3-note" guid="_33bf8fe9-0062-425e-9958-6517e6b1c238" type="example"><heading id="sec.9-frag-sec.3-note-he" guid="_b983c1fb-0105-46a5-bf61-be0d687fe131">Note—</heading><block><txt break.before="1">Under section 41A(3)(c) of the Act, the procedures must be published on the commission’s website.</txt></block></note></clause></fragment></block></clause></part><part id="pt.4" guid="_6cdde5ba-e7da-4938-a369-1e3454345a4e" affected.by.uncommenced="0"><no>Part 4</no><heading id="pt.4-he" guid="_53dcce55-1fb7-47f4-98b3-58c7e871b9ae">Amendment of State Penalties Enforcement Regulation 2014</heading><clause id="sec.10" guid="_63c62ce8-995a-46bd-9099-ea24dc51ea30" provision.type="commence" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>10</no><heading id="sec.10-he" guid="_9fbec59c-8b4d-4a36-ba30-45fcc8e81432">Regulation amended</heading><block><txt break.before="1">This part amends the <legref type="subordleg" target.doc.id="sl-2014-0177" target.version.series="751a1277-4f9b-4cf9-b887-0ba93134be45" check="valid" jurisd="QLD"><name emphasis="yes">State Penalties Enforcement Regulation 2014</name></legref>.</txt></block></clause><clause id="sec.11" guid="_e1a6093d-e794-45bd-bd29-315ba892e156" provision.type="amend" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0"><no>11</no><heading id="sec.11-he" guid="_18a2f67a-e6a9-4f14-8219-f64af33ca3f2">Amendment of <legref refid="sch.1" check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">sch&#160;1</legref> (Infringement notice offences and fines for nominated laws)</heading><block><txt break.before="1"><legref refid="sch.1" target.doc.id="act-1992-028" target.version.series="0655eca6-9313-4fe7-8407-7949086443da" target.guid="_4025171b-4254-4609-8185-37fb7ec42f30" check="valid" jurisd="QLD" type="act">Schedule&#160;1</legref>, entry for <legref target.doc.id="act-1992-028" target.version.series="0655eca6-9313-4fe7-8407-7949086443da" check="valid" jurisd="QLD" type="act"><name emphasis="yes">Electoral Act 1992</name></legref>—</txt><txt break.before="1"><i>insert—</i></txt><fragment auto.number.type="manual" format="fromcontext" style="indent"><table frame="none" colsep="0" rowsep="0" id="sec.11-frag-tbl" guid="_efd09f91-72d3-491c-b940-ee308afeb07b" orient="port" heading.align="left" font.size="12.pt"><tgroup cols="4" colsep="0" rowsep="0" align="left" tgroupstyle="Unruled3column"><colspec colnum="1" colname="1" colwidth="1.250in" colsep="0"/><colspec colnum="2" colname="2" colwidth="2.240in" colsep="0"/><colspec colnum="3" colname="3" colwidth="1.099in" colsep="0"/><colspec colnum="4" colname="4" colwidth="0.411in" colsep="0"/><tbody><row rowsep="0" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr" guid="_454174b5-65fe-40fa-bb49-2198d59ed66e"><entry colname="1" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-tble1" guid="_d8f04b06-0f30-459f-8856-75ab8778e31a"><block><txt break.before="1">s 392T(4)</txt></block></entry><entry colname="2" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-tble2" guid="_fb3682a1-7930-4ce9-bb09-d22d6c0bce2a"/><entry colname="3" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-tble3" guid="_b7b59ac3-ae09-4c1a-a9f5-81679420f3dd"><block><txt break.before="1">1</txt></block></entry><entry colname="4" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-tble4" guid="_cbb220a3-d2d4-45c8-a981-16e59e5c40f7"><block><txt break.before="1">-</txt></block></entry></row><row rowsep="0" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-oc.2" guid="_1d62e33a-ec9a-4fc8-9fe3-e4b7715bba08"><entry colname="1" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-oc.2-tble1" guid="_5356bc23-0e6b-4183-80df-86256541abb4"><block><txt break.before="1">s 392U(4)</txt></block></entry><entry colname="2" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-oc.2-tble2" guid="_ff7ceec1-7d3f-4108-b771-e178b7f3286e"/><entry colname="3" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-oc.2-tble3" guid="_d08a4d71-8385-4743-a748-190e36f7fdc7"><block><txt break.before="1">2</txt></block></entry><entry colname="4" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-oc.2-tble4" guid="_eabf034d-a93c-4afe-ad92-7d6c53c51eb4"><block><txt break.before="1">-</txt></block></entry></row><row rowsep="0" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-oc.3" guid="_4171c93b-fdc9-4289-9b23-263111680a4b"><entry colname="1" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-oc.3-tble1" guid="_4fa3180e-87fb-47fb-8bf7-7822e14827e2"><block><txt break.before="1">s 392V(4)</txt></block></entry><entry colname="2" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-oc.3-tble2" guid="_0ace05e2-9ed3-41dc-a512-38d82a5f6818"/><entry colname="3" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-oc.3-tble3" guid="_19b50fe6-0ebf-4dc0-8156-41f90e100fa8"><block><txt break.before="1">2</txt></block></entry><entry colname="4" id="sec.11-frag-tbl-tblr-oc.3-tble4" guid="_17fadb71-ebcc-4083-83fe-d6f3fb28392d"><block><txt break.before="1">-</txt></block></entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></fragment></block></clause></part></body></wrapper></subordleg>