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Electoral Act 1993

Elections - General elections

128B: Electoral Commission must record and notify change in component parties

You could also call this:

"The Electoral Commission updates and shares changes to political party details."

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The Electoral Commission has a job to do when a political party's details change. If the parties that make up a bigger political party are different from what is recorded, you need to know the Electoral Commission must update the records. They do this by changing the Register of Political Parties to match the new information they received under section 127(3A) and section 62(2).

The Electoral Commission must then tell everyone about the change by publishing a notice in the Gazette. This notice says what changes were made to the Register of Political Parties.

You can find out more about how the Electoral Commission does this by looking at the rules they follow, which are outlined in the Electoral (Administration) Amendment Act 2010.

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Part 6Elections
General elections

128BElectoral Commission must record and notify change in component parties

  1. If the component parties of a political party listed in the copy of any declaration received by the Electoral Commission under section 127(3A) differ from those recorded in the Register of Political Parties established by section 62(2), the Electoral Commission—

  2. must amend the Register so that the component parties recorded in the Register are the same as those recorded in the declaration made to the Electoral Commission; and
    1. must, immediately after amending the Register under paragraph (a), publish in the Gazette a notice of the amendment made under that paragraph.

      Notes
      • Section 128B: substituted, on , by section 32(2)(a) of the Electoral (Administration) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 26).