Names appearing on electoral roll not to be objected to because not included in electoral census of district.

Section 15 of Amendment Act, 1910, amended.

Appointment of officers for conduct of national-prohibition poll.

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Legislature Amendment Act 1911

Public Act		1911 No 19
Date of assent		28 October 1911

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Names appearing on electoral roll not to be objected to because not included in electoral census of district.
3	Section 115 of principal Act amended.
4	Section 15 of Amendment Act, 1910, amended.
5	Appointment of officers for conduct of national-prohibition poll.
6	Section 4 of Second Ballot Act amended.

An Act to amend the Legislature Act, 1908.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Legislature Amendment Act, 1911, and shall form part of and be read together with the Legislature Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Names appearing on electoral roll not to be objected to because not included in electoral census of district.

(1.)

After the passing of this Act the Registrar of any electoral district shall not object on any ground to the name of any person appearing on the roll of that district merely because the name of that person was not included in the electoral census taken for that district under the authority of section six of the Legislature Amendment Act, 1910.

Restoration of certain names removed from roll.

(2.)

Where, prior to the passing of this Act, the name of any person has been so objected to for the reason aforesaid, and has been removed by the Registrar in pursuance of paragraph (c) of subsection three of section fifteen of the said Act, the Registrar shall forthwith upon the passing of this Act cause the name so removed to be restored to the roll, unless he is satisfied that the name is entered on the roll of some other electoral district or that the person is dead.

(3.)

Nothing in this section shall operate to prevent the making of objections by the Registrar or any other person to any name so restored for any reason other than that hereinbefore referred to, and all such objections shall be dealt with and determined in the manner prescribed in section fifteen of the said Act.

3 Section 115 of principal Act amended.

Section one hundred and fifteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:—

“(3.)

Every elector who on the close of the poll is present in a booth for the purpose of voting shall be entitled to receive a ballot-paper and to mark and deposit the same in the same manner as if he had voted before the close of the poll.”

4 Section 15 of Amendment Act, 1910, amended.

Section fifteen of the Legislature Amendment Act, 1910, is hereby amended by inserting, before the words “the name of any person” in subsection four, the words “except as otherwise provided in this section.”

5 Appointment of officers for conduct of national-prohibition poll.

(1.)

In the exercise of the powers conferred upon the Returning Officer by paragraph (e) of section fourteen of the Licensing Act, 1908, he may in his discretion, in respect of any polling-place, either—

(a.)

Appoint the same Deputy Returning Officer and pollclerks for the purpose of the licensing poll on the question of national prohibition or national restoration and for the purpose of the licensing poll on the question whether licenses shall be granted or restored in the district; or

(b.)

Appoint a different Deputy Returning Officer and different poll-clerks for each of the said purposes.

Ballot-boxes at national-prohibition poll.

(2.)

In the exercise of the powers conferred upon the Returning Officer by paragraph (c) of section fourteen of the said Act, he may in his discretion, in respect of any polling-place, either—

(a.)

Provide the same ballot-boxes for the purpose of the licensing poll on the question of national prohibition or national restoration and for the purpose of the licensing poll on the question whether licenses shall be granted or restored in the district; or

(b.)

Provide different ballot-boxes for each of the said purposes.

6 Section 4 of Second Ballot Act amended.

(1.)

Section four of the Second Ballot Act, 1908, is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “Except in the electoral districts mentioned in the First Schedule hereto”; and by repealing subsections two, three, and four thereof.

Repeal.

(2.)

The First Schedule to the said Act is hereby repealed.

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