From and after the coming into operation of this Act, no person shall be entitled to be registered on any electoral roll in respect of a non-residential qualification, anything in the principal Act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided that nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of the existing registration of any person who at the time of the coming into operation of this Act is registered on any roll in respect of a non-residential qualification.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in subsection three of section two of “The Electoral Law Amendment Act, 1893,” or elsewhere in that Act or the principal Act, the following special provisions shall apply in the case of seamen:—

If the Registrar is satisfied of the validity of any seaman’s claim to enrolment, it shall be his duty forthwith to place such seaman’s name on the roll, and to issue to such seaman an elector’s right.

If the Registrar is not satisfied of the validity of any seaman’s claim to enrolment, it shall be his duty, forthwith upon receipt of the claim, to make inquiries as to the truth of the particulars therein stated.

If, after making such inquiries on the day on which he receives the claim, the Registrar is not satisfied as aforesaid, be shall, on the same or the next following day, apply for the summons as set forth in the Fifth Schedule to the principal Act, and such summons shall, if the seaman so desires, be returnable forthwith.

It shall be the duty of the Registrar and the Magistrate to do all things in their power in order to facilitate the prompt disposal of every such claim and summons, and for that purpose the summons may be heard and disposed of at any time before the day or hour therein named in that behalf if the seaman consents thereto.

It shall be the duty of the Registrar, as soon as may be convenient, to notify all persons whose claims are sent in after the printing of the general roll that they have been duly enrolled.

When a Registrar has received notice from an elector-to transfer his name to another district, he shall transmit a copy of such notice to the Registrar of such district, after filing the original notice in his office.

Any Registrar who strikes off the name of any elector, or places the name of any elector on any roll in consequence of the redistribution of electorates, shall, as soon as may be convenient, give notice of his having done so to the Registrars of adjoining electorates.

Every Deputy Returning Officer, after the hour fixed for the close of the poll, shall announce the result of the voting at the polling-booth of which he is in charge immediately after ascertaining the number of votes recorded for each candidate.

In any case where a woman whose name is on the roll subsequently marries, and thereby changes her name, the following provisions shall apply:—

On receipt of an application by her in the form or to the effect set forth in the First Schedule hereto, the Registrar, if satisfied of the validity of the application, shall at any time before the issue of the writ (but not later) erase the name then on the roll, and in lieu thereof insert in its alphabetical order the applicant’s married name.

If for any reason such application is either not made or not complied with at or before the issue of the writ, then she shall be entitled to vote in right of her former name as appearing on the roll.

The Governor may appoint any primary school to be a polling-place, and in every such case it shall be the duty of the Committee of such school to place it at the free disposal of the Returning Officer from four o’clock in the afternoon of the day preceding the election until ten o’clock on the evening of the day of the election.

The cost of cleaning such school after use as a polling-place, and of repairing any damage, shall be defrayed by the Returning Officer out of moneys to be appropriated by Parliament.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in sections eighty-seven or eighty-eight of the principal Act, the Returning Officer is hereby empowered to appoint, in manner provided by that Act, as many Deputies as he deems necessary for the effective taking of the poll in every polling-booth at every polling-place (including the principal polling-place) of the district, and the provisions of that Act shall apply to every such Deputy.

A Deputy Returning Officer shall be entitled to vote as an elector of the district on the roll whereof his name is duly entered as a qualified elector, but he shall not have the power conferred upon the Returning Officer to give the additional vote referred to in section one hundred and twenty-two of the principal Act, or the casting-vote referred to in subsection fifteen of section one hundred and fifty-six of that Act.

No elector’s right shall be granted in any district after the issue of a writ for any election in such district until the completion of such election.

Section nineteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by substituting the word “any” in lieu of the word “the” next after the words “an elector of.”

Subsection five of section sixty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by substituting the words “among the ballot-papers recorded,” in lieu of the words “into the ballot-box.”

Section severity-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by substituting the words “not later than five o’clock in the afternoon of the seventh day” in lieu of the words “not less than seven days.”

In every case where a candidate duly withdraws in manner prescribed by section seventy-eight of the principal Act, the sum deposited or remitted by him or on his behalf as prescribed by section seventy-seven of that Act shall be returned to the person who paid it.

Section eighty-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting next after the words “the Fifteenth Schedule hereto” the words “(or in electorates at any time hereafter constituted within what, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, are substantially the same geographical areas)”; and also by adding at the end of the section the following words: “For the purpose of this section the Governor, as soon as conveniently may be after the constitution of new electorates, shall, by notice in the Gazette, specify those in which the poll shall close at seven o’clock, and such notice shall be conclusive evidence of the matters stated therein.”

Subsection two of section ninety-six of the principal Act is hereby amended by substituting the words “three months” in lieu of the words “six months.”

Section one hundred of the principal Act is hereby amended by substituting the words “draw a line in pencil or ink through the number and name” in lieu of the words “place a mark against the name.”

Section one hundred and twenty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended by substituting the word “transmitted” in lieu of the word “returned.”

Section one hundred and twenty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by substituting the words “is transmitted as aforesaid by the Returning Officer” in lieu of the words “comes into the possession of the Clerk of the Writs.”

It shall be the duty of the Registrar of Electors who erases any person’s name from the roll, as prescribed by section one hundred and twenty-six of the principal Act, to forthwith post to such person a notice in the form in the Second Schedule hereto:

Provided that neither this section nor the aforesaid section one hundred and twenty-six shall apply in respect of any election other than an election of a member of the House of Representatives.

Section one hundred and thirty-nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting next after subsection four thereof the following additional subsections, that is to say:—

In lieu of the form of writ set forth in the Tenth and Eighteenth Schedules to the principal Act, the form of writ set forth in the Third Schedule hereto shall be used by the Clerk of the Writs in every case of a general or particular election.

Section three of “The Electoral Law Amendment Act, 1893,” is hereby amended by inserting the words “or mustering” after the word “shearing” in the last line of the said section.