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Schedule 4

  31. Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by omitting from paragraph 3(d) "stated; and" and substituting "stated.";

  (b) by omitting paragraph 3(e);

  (c) by inserting after clause 3 the following clause:

     Deadline for filing a petition

     "3A.(1) Any petition disputing an election held as part of a general election must be filed in a Registry of the Court within 40 days after the last day on which a poll is declared in relation to the general election.

     "(2) Any petition disputing any other election must be filed in a Registry of the Court within 40 days after the poll is declared in relation to the election.

      "(3) In this clause:

     'general election' means:

      (a) a round of Regional Council elections; or

      (b) a round of zone elections; or

      (c) a TSRA election for all wards.";

  (d) by inserting in clause 6 ", 3A" after "3".

Amendments of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act (No. 3) 1993

32. Schedule 2 to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act (No. 3) 19932 is amended by omitting clauses 55 and 56.

NOTES

  1. No. 150, 1989, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 122, 1991; Nos. 26 and 37, 1993; and No. 1, 1994.

  2. No. 1, 1994.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—
     Senate on 24 March 1994
     House of Representatives on 27 June 1994]