Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:4:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 6/7)
Character Range: 32329–35200

a political party that is registered under Part XI.
Register of Political Parties means the Register of Political Parties established under section 125.
Registrar‑General:
 (a) of a State, the Australian Capital Territory (not including a non‑self‑governing Territory) or the Northern Territory (not including a non‑self‑governing Territory)—means the principal officer (however described) who is charged with the duty of registering births, deaths and marriages occurring in the State or Territory; and
 (b) of a non‑self‑governing Territory—means the principal officer (however described) who is charged with the duty of registering births, deaths and marriages occurring in the non‑self‑governing Territory.
Regulatory Powers Act means the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014.
Returning Officer includes Divisional Returning Officer, Assistant Returning Officer and Assistant Divisional Returning Officer.
Roll means an Electoral Roll under this Act.
Senate election means an election of Senators for a State or Territory.
sentence of imprisonment has the meaning given subsection (1A).
Subdivision means a subdivision of a Division.
substitute presiding officer means a person holding an appointment under section 204.
Territory means (except in Part III) the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory.
Note: For the definition of Territory in Part III, see section 38A.
video recording includes a video recording that is recorded on means other than a videotape.
 (1A) For the purposes of this Act, a person is serving a sentence of imprisonment only if:
 (a) the person is in detention on a full‑time basis for an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory; and
 (b) that detention is attributable to the sentence of imprisonment concerned.
 (1B) A person is provisionally enrolled if the person is provisionally enrolled under section 99B.
 (2) For the purposes of this Act, an organization shall be taken to endorse a candidate in an election if a part of the organization, or an organization of which the first‑mentioned organization is a part, endorses the candidate in that election.
 (3) A reference in this Act to age 16 enrolment shall be read as a reference to enrolment in pursuance of section 100.
 (4) Where a Division is not divided into Subdivisions, a reference in this Act to a Subdivision shall, in relation to that Division, be read as a reference to that Division.
 (5) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
 (a) a reference to a Division shall be read as including a reference to a Territory to which section 55A does not apply; and
 (b) a reference to a Subdivision shall be read as including a reference to a District of that Territory specified in a notice published under subsection 79(1).
 (6) This Act extends to:
 (a) Norfolk Island; and
 (b) the Territory of Cocos (Keeling)