Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A05055:schedule:2:p15
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A05055
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 15/15)
Character Range: 40796–42140

"$5,000", substitute "50 penalty units".

67 Subsection 198(3)

  Omit "$1,000", substitute "10 penalty units".

68 After subsection 198(3)

  Insert:

       (3A) A person must not make a statement to another person, either orally or in writing, as to the other person's right to vote in an election under this Act if the person making the statement knows that the statement is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty: 25 penalty units.

       (3B) A person must not encourage another person to vote in an election under this Act if the first-mentioned person knows that the other person is not entitled to vote in the election.

Penalty: 25 penalty units.

69 Application

(1) In this item:

    appointment day means the day, or the earliest day, on which the Minister appoints a person as a Commissioner after the person has been elected in the first zone election (other than a zone election for the Torres Strait zone) held after the end of the election period that started on 12 July 1996.

deferred items means items 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 56.

  (2)  The amendments made by the deferred items do not apply until the appointment day.

       (3)  The person who held office as the Commission Chairperson immediately before the appointment day ceases to hold that office on that day.