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Session 11. 1923. NEW ZEALAND.

LEGISLATURE AMENDMENT BILL.

Laid on the Table of the House of Representatives by Leave.

ANALYSIS. Title. PART 111. 1. Short Title. Proportional Representation. Compulsory Registration of Electors. 2 <5- Proportional representation in certain urban _ _, , , . ~ ~. districts. Constitution of electoral divisions 2. Compulsory registration of electors. for ( . B o{ p ro|)ol . t i oni _i representation. 3. Penalty for failure to register 26 _ Alteration o{ ( .l ectora l divisions by Repre4. Changes of address to be notified. sentation Commissions. ■5. Elector not disqualified tor failure to notify ._r, Representation of electoral divisions. change of address 2g Returning offiocr for each e lectt.ral division. 6. Temporary absence from district not a dis- 2Q Elpctora ] and subdivisional rolls. - is, q^ 11li _ oatlon - .„,.,,, f 30. Mode of marking ballot-paper. 7. Notification of death of registered elector. g F Q _ ballot ° a _£. £ ro]) ,,,. U onal le pre8. Notification of marriages for purpose ol sentation. amending rolls. 9. Preparation of new rolls. 10. Abolition of existing rolls. Preliminary Count of (lie Voles. PART II Counterfoils and marked rolls to be scaled up. „ * Number of first-preference votes counted. Preferential Voting. ~., Informal vot( . K . 11. This Part not apphoable to genoral elections m ;(4. R esu lt of voting to be announced. oertain urban districts. 35. Deputies to make up books and papers in 12. Preferontial-voting system to apply to future parcels. elections. 13. Mode of marking ballot-papor. Official Count of the Votes and Declaration of Poll. 14. Form of ballot-paper for preferential voting. 36 offi(jial „ ount of yoU^ Preliminary Count of the Votes. 37. Count may be adjourned. ,_ „ ... , , _ „ , , , , 38. Declaration of result of pi .11. 15. Counterfoils and markod rolls to bo sealed up. * Numbor of first-preference votes counted. 16. Informal votes. PART IV. 17. Result of voting to be announced.. Miscellaneous. 18. Deputies to make up books and papors in „_ . . parcels. 9 - Section 40 of principal Act amended. ' 40. Seotion 52 of Amendment Act, 1910, amended. Official Count of the Votes and Declaration of Poll. 41 Absent voters. 19. Official count of- the votes. 42. Certain persons entitled to vote on making 20. Declaration of the poll where absolute majority declaration as to qualifications. Conseobtained. quential repeal. 21. Provisions to apply where absoluto majority 43. Residential qualifications of electors. Consenot obtained. quential repeal. 22. Subsequent dealings with ballot-papers. 44. Section 110 of principal Act amended. 23. Count may be adjourned. 45. Repeals. 24. Declaration of result of poll. Schedules. A BILL INTITULED An Act to amend the Legislature Act, 1908. Title. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. This Act may be cited as the Legislature Amendment Act. short Title. 192.3, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Legis lature Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

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