Electoral Act 1993

2: Commencement

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"When the Electoral Act 1993 starts to be used"

When the Chief Electoral Officer says the mixed member proportional system is approved, some parts of the Electoral Act 1993 will start on 1 July 1994. You will see this in section 19(5) of the Electoral Referendum Act 1993. This includes Parts 4, 6 to 9, and Schedules 2 and 3.

If the Chief Electoral Officer makes this declaration, other parts will start the day after it is published in the Gazette. These parts are section 3, Parts 1, 2, 3, and 5, sections 267, 269, and 270, and Schedule 1. You can find this information in the Electoral Referendum Act 1993.

If the mixed member proportional system is not approved, some parts of the Electoral Act 1993 will not start. These are section 3, Parts 1 to 9, and Schedules 1, 2, and 3. The whole Act will be repealed on 1 July 1994.

The rest of the Act will start on the day it gets Royal assent, unless it says otherwise.

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1: Short Title, or

"The name of this law is the Electoral Act 1993."

3: Interpretation, or

"What words mean in the Electoral Act"

2Commencement

If the Chief Electoral Officer makes, in accordance with section 19(5) of the Electoral Referendum Act 1993, a declaration that the proposal favouring the introduction of the proposed mixed member proportional system as provided in this Act is carried, Part 4 and Parts 6 to 9 and Schedules 2 and 3 shall, except as provided in subsection (2), come into force on 1 July 1994.
If the Chief Electoral Officer makes, in accordance with section 19(5) of the Electoral Referendum Act 1993, a declaration that the proposal favouring the introduction of the proposed mixed member proportional system as provided in this Act is carried, section 3 and Parts 1, 2, 3, and 5 and sections 267, 269, and 270 and Schedule 1 shall come into force on the day after the date on which that declaration is published in the Gazette.
If the Chief Electoral Officer makes, in accordance with section 19(5) of the Electoral Referendum Act 1993, a declaration that the proposal favouring the introduction of the proposed mixed member proportional system as provided in this Act is not carried,—
section 3 and Parts 1 to 9 and Schedules 1, 2, and 3 shall not come into force; and
on 1 July 1994, this Act shall be deemed to be repealed.

Except as provided in subsections (1) to (3), this Act shall come into force on the day on which it receives the Royal assent.

Notes

Section 2(2): section 3, Parts 1–3 and 5, sections 267, 269, and 270, and Schedule 1brought into force, on 17 December 1993, by declaration in the Gazette 1993, p 3753.