Constitution (Fixed Term Parliament) Referendum Bill 2015* (Qld)

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Queensland

Constitution (Fixed Term

Parliament) Referendum Bill 2015

Includes amendments agreed during Consideration

Queensland

Constitution (Fixed Term Parliament) Referendum Bill 2015

Contents

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 Division 1 Division 2810 131517 Preliminary

Shorttitle 0... eee eee eee Submitting Bill to electors for voting

Bill to be submitted to electors................0.0.0.0000. How vote is taken... 12.2.0... 0.0.0.0. eee eee eee eee Amendment of Acts

Amendment of this Act

Actamended .......... 0.0.0. c eee ee Amendment of longtitle............ 00.0... e eee eee eee ee Amendment of Referendums Act 1997

Actamended .......... 0.0.0. c eee ee Amendment of s 3 (Function of the commission)............. Amendment of s 6 (Form and content of writs) ..............

Amendment of s 8 (Commission to publish writ and prepare for referendum) ......... 0.0: ce eee eect eee

Amendment of s 11 (When must an argument in favour of or against the

Bill or question be published) .................-00 0. eee ee

Amendment of s 12 (How an argument for or against the Bill or question

is distributed or published) .............. 000.0 e eee eee Amendment of s 13 (More than 1 referendum on the same day). Amendment of s 16 (Kinds of polling booths)................ Amendment of s 18 (Supply of ballot papers and electoral rolls) . Amendment of s 19 (Scrutineers)...............0....00005 Amendment of s 21 (Who may vote) ............--.--00-5. Amendment of s 22 (Procedure for voting).................. Insertion of new pt 4, div 3, sdiv1A.................0.000. Subdivision 1A Pre-poll ordinary voting 10101112

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24A Pre-poll ordinary voting ......................0. 12 24B Pre-poll voting offices. .............0....00 00 13 24C Procedure for pre-poll ordinary voting ............ 13 24D Help to enable electors to vote at pre-poll voting offices 15 Amendment of s 25 (Who may make a declaration vote)....... 16 Amendment of s 26 (Who must make a declaration vote) ...... 17 Amendment of s 30 (Making a declaration vote using posted referendum Papers)... eee eee eee 17 Amendment of s 31 (Electoral visitor voting) ................ 17 Amendment of s 32 (Making a declaration vote in cases of uncertain identity)... 0... eee eee 17 Insertion of new pt 4, div 3, sdiv2A...............-.0.00.0- 18 Subdivision 2A Electronically assisted voting 32A Who may make an electronically assisted vote .... . 18 32B Prescribed procedures for electronically assisted voting 19 32C Audit of electronically assisted voting fora referendum 20 32D Protection of information technology ............. 21 32E Electoral commissioner may decide electronically assisted voting is not to be used................0...000. 21 32F Review of electronically assisted voting........... 22 Amendment of s 33 (How electors must vote) ............... 22 Amendment of s 36 (Preliminary processing of declaration envelopes and ballot papers)........... 0... c eee eee eee eee eee 22 Amendment of s 38 (Preliminary counting of ordinary votes). . . . 23 Amendment of s 39 (Official counting of votes) .............. 23 Amendment of s 83 (Failure to post, fax or deliver documents for someone else) .........- 00. c cece eects 24 Replacement of pt 7, hdg (Referendum held in conjunction with election under Electoral Act 1992)................0 0.0.0 c eee eee 24 Amendment of s 88 (Extension of time).................... 24 Amendment of s 89 (Cut-off date for electoral rolls for an election and a referendum) ......... 0.0.0 eee ee 25 Amendment of s 90 (Pre-poll voting—making a declaration vote at a commission office) ...... 2.0... cece eee eee 25 Amendment of s 92 (Mobile polling booths)................. 25 Amendment of s 94 (Applications, declarations, ballot papers and references)... 6... eee 25 Amendment of s 95 (Record of ordinary votes) .............. 26