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Electoral (Amendment) No. 2 Act 2019

REPUBLIC OF NAURU

ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) NO. 2 ACT 2019

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No. 21 of 2019
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An Act to amend the Electoral Act 2016

Certified: 12^th July 2019

Table of Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Amendment of the Electoral Act 2016

4 Amendment of section 78

5 Amendment of section 85

6 Amendment to section 85A

Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Amendment) No. 2 Act 2019.

2 Commencement

This Act commences upon certification by the Speaker.

3 Amendment of the Electoral Act 2016

The Electoral Act 2016 is amended by the provisions of this Act.

4 Amendment of section 78

Section 78(7) is amended by deleting the figure ‘2’ and substituting ‘4’.

The clause will now read:

‘(7) The Electoral Commissioner must not grant to a voter more than 4 proxy voting authorisations.’

5 Amendment of section 85

Section 85(4) is amended by deleting ‘section 87’ where it appears immediately after the word ‘under’ and substituting ‘section 85A’.

6 Amendment to section 85A

Section 85A (4) is deleted and substituted as follows:

“(4) If two or more candidates receive an equal value of votes and one or more of the candidates must be excluded, the Electoral Commissioner must determine by lot a candidate or candidates to be excluded, using a random method of selection such as:

(a) tossing a coin; or

(b) drawing the names out of a container in such manner that the Electoral Commissioner cannot see which names he or she is drawing.”