COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL.

No. 18 of 1906.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Parliamentary Elections.

[Assented to 12th October, 1906.]

BE it, enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1906, and the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902 as amended by the Electoral Divisions Act 1903, the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1905, and this Act, may be cited as the Electoral Acts 1902-1906.

Electoral advertisements.

2. Section one hundred and eighty of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902 as amended by the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1905, is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) the words “other than an advertisement announcing the holding of a meeting in a newspaper” and inserting after the word “notice” the words “(other than the announcement by advertisement in a newspaper of the holding of a meeting)”.