PROCEDURE OUTLINED
EXPIRY OF PARLIAMENT
The life of the present Parliament will, according to sub-section 2 of section 3 of the Electoral Act, 1927, expire by effluxion of -time on 28th November unless there is a dissolution before that date. The practice in tho past has been- to dissolve Parliament before the statutory date of expiry.
Section 101 Electoral Act, 1927, provides that the Governor-Gen6ral shall not later than seven days after the day of dissolution, or expiry of the then last Parliament, direct the Clerk of the Writs to proceed With the elections. On receipt- of the GoveruorGeneral'a warrant the Clerk of shall within three days cause writs to bo issued which are returnable within 40 days. Every returning officer shall forthwith on receipt of a writ give public notico of the days named respectively for the nomination of can* didates and for the polling. Section'll9 of the Act requires nominations to reach the returning officers not-later than noon on the day appointed in th« writs as the latest Say for the homiiia* tion of candidates. At •'least -seven days after polling day is left for th» recounts, etc., and return of the writs. The day on which tho, writs are ,endorsed with names of the persons elect-1 ed is deemed the day of the return lot the writs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 104, 29 October 1931, Page 15
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