Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:76:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 76 (pt 4/4)
Character Range: 152352–154579

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 (11) Where the present entitlement of the State is less than the previous entitlement of the State, each pair of contiguous Divisions set aside in pursuance of paragraph (3)(b) shall be distributed into one Electoral Division.
 (12) The Electoral Division so formed from the pair of contiguous Divisions shall have a name consisting of the names of each Division included in the pair of contiguous Divisions arranged in alphabetical order and hyphenated.
 (13) The Redistribution Commissioners shall, forthwith after the making of the determination under subsection (6):
 (a) forward to the Minister a copy of the determination; and
 (b) cause a copy of the determination to be published forthwith in the Gazette and in 2 newspapers circulating throughout the State.
 (14) The Minister shall cause copies of the determination to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 5 sitting days of that House after he or she receives a copy of the determination.
 (15) The number of electors enrolled in each pair of contiguous Divisions in the State and in each Subdivision in each Division in the State shall, in so far as it is necessary to do so for the purposes of this section, be ascertained using only the last statement published under subsection 58(1) before the relevant day.
 (16) Two Divisions in a State shall be taken, for the purposes of this section, to be contiguous Divisions if the boundaries of the Divisions actually touch in at least one place.
 (16A) This section applies to the Australian Capital Territory as if:
 (b) except in subsection (2), a reference to the Australian Electoral Officer for a State were a reference to the Electoral Commissioner; and
 (c) subsection (2) were omitted and the following subsection substituted:
 "(2) For the purposes of the redistribution, the Electoral Commissioner and a member of the staff of the Electoral Commission appointed under subsection 60(7B) are to be the Redistribution Commissioners for the Australian Capital Territory.".
 (17) In this section, Population Census Collection District means an area designated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics as a Population Census Collection District for the purposes of the taking of the Census.