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Electoral (Amendment) Act 2016

REPUBLIC OF NAURU

ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT 2016

No. 23 of 2016

An Act to amend the Electoral Act 2016 to facilitate applications for transfer of registration for voters who are automatically entered on the Roll, and to alter the closing date for withdrawal of nomination as candidate:

Certified: 12th May 2016

Table of Contents

1 SHORT TITLE
2 COMMENCEMENT
3 INTERPRETATION
4 AMENDMENT OF ELECTORAL ACT 2016
5 AMENDMENT OF SECTION 39
6 AMENDMENT OF SECTION 24
7 AMENDMENT OF SECTION 25
8 AMENDMENT OF SECTION 58

Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2016.

2 Commencement

This Act commences upon certification by the Speaker.

3 Interpretation

In this Act:

'Principal Act' means the Electoral Act 2016.

4 Amendment of Electoral Act 2016

The Electoral Act 2016 is amended by the provisions of this Act.

5 Amendment of section 39

Section 39 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

(1) Inserting a new subsection (4):

(4) A person who is registered under subsection (1) may apply for the transfer of his or her name from the Roll of a District in which his or her name is entered under subsection (2) to the Roll of another District if the person is entitled under section 42 to have his or her name entered on the Roll of that other District.

(2) Inserting a new subsection (5):

(5) An application made under subsection (4) must be in Form 2 of Schedule 2.

(3) Inserting a new subsection (6):

(6) An application made under subsection (4) is exempted from the payment of any fee.

6 Amendment of section 24

Section 24 (4) is amended by deleting the figure '14' in the second line and substituting with the figure '7'

7 Amendment of section 25

Section 25 (2) is repealed.

8 Amendment of section 58

Section 58 is amended by deleting the figure '7' in the third line and substituting with the figure '8'.