Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:104:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 104 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 265192–267777

104  Request for address not to be shown on Roll
 (1) Where a person considers that having his or her address shown on the Roll for a Subdivision would place the personal safety of the person or of members of the person's family at risk, he or she may lodge with the claim for enrolment (including a provisional claim for enrolment) a request, in the approved form, that his or her address not be entered on the Roll for the Subdivision for which enrolment is claimed.
 (2) Where:
 (a) the address of a person is included in the particulars relating to the person that are entered on the Roll for a Subdivision; and
 (b) the person considers that having his or her address so shown places the personal safety of the person or of members of his or her family at risk;
the person may lodge with the Electoral Commissioner a request, in the approved form, that his or her address be deleted from the particulars that are entered on that Roll.
 (3) A request under subsection (1) or (2) shall give particulars of the relevant risk and shall be verified by statutory declaration by the person making the request or some other person.
 (4) Where:
 (a) a request has been made under subsection (1) or (2); and
 (b) the Electoral Commissioner is satisfied that having the address of the person making the request shown on the Roll for the Subdivision would place or places the personal safety of the person or members of the person's family at risk;
the Electoral Commissioner:
 (c) in a case where the request was lodged under subsection (1)—shall not include the address of the person in the particulars relating to the person that are entered on the Roll for the Subdivision; and
 (d) in a case where the request is lodged under subsection (2)—shall delete the address of the person from the particulars relating to the person that are entered on the Roll for the Subdivision.
 (4A) If:
 (a) the address of an elector is not shown on the Roll for a Subdivision because of this section; and
 (b) the elector's name is transferred to a Roll for another Subdivision;
the Electoral Commissioner must not enter the elector's address on the Roll for the other Subdivision.
 (5) Where the Electoral Commissioner grants or refuses a request made by a person under subsection (1) or (2), the Electoral Commissioner shall notify the person in writing of the decision.
 (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 107, where an address is deleted from a Roll in pursuance of subsection (4), the address so deleted shall be obliterated.
 (7) The Electoral Commissioner may conduct a review of the