Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:68
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 68
Character Range: 127101–129586

68  Notice of proposed redistribution
 (1) A Redistribution Committee for a State shall, as soon as practicable after it has made its proposed redistribution of the State:
 (a) cause to be published on the Electoral Commission's website, and in any other way the Redistribution Committee considers appropriate, a map or maps showing the names and boundaries of each proposed Electoral Division in the State; and
 (b) cause to be published on the Electoral Commission's website, and in any other way the Redistribution Committee considers appropriate:
 (i) the suggestions and comments lodged under subsection 64(1); and
 (ii) descriptions (whether by reference to a map or plan or otherwise) of the boundaries of each proposed Electoral Division; and
 (iii) its reasons for the proposed redistribution; and
 (iv) if a member of the Redistribution Committee has stated in writing reasons for his or her disagreement with the proposed redistribution—those reasons; and
 (c) by notice published in the Gazette on a Friday, invite public attention to the publication of the map or maps referred to in paragraph (a) and the suggestions, comments, descriptions and reasons referred to in paragraph (b); and
 (d) cause to be published in:
 (i) 2 newspapers circulating throughout the State; and
 (ii) such regional newspapers circulating in the region or regions affected by the proposed redistribution as the Redistribution Committee determines;
  a notice in writing inviting public attention to the publication of the comments and suggestions, descriptions and reasons referred to in paragraph (b), together with:
 (iii) in the case of a notice published in a newspaper referred to in subparagraph (i), a map or maps showing the names and boundaries of each proposed Electoral Division in the State; and
 (iv) in the case of a notice published in a regional newspaper, a map or maps showing the effects of the proposed redistribution in the region or regions in which that newspaper circulates.
 (2) A notice published under paragraph (1)(c) or (d) must include a statement:
 (a) inviting written objections against the proposed redistribution to be lodged with the Electoral Commission before 6 pm on the 4th Friday after publication of the notice in the Gazette under paragraph (1)(c); and
 (b) inviting written comments on objections lodged under subsection 69(1) to be lodged with the Electoral Commission before 6 pm on the 6th Friday after publication of the notice in the Gazette.