Act No. 4 of 2018. Introduced by /u/ForzaAustralia. Assented to 2018-03-21. Repealed by Legislation Clean-up (Omnibus) Amendment Act 2019.
2018
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of AustraliaSim
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
As Amended
Electoral Modifers Bill 2018
No. 1, 2018
(Drafted by RunasSudo)
(Introduced by ForzaAustralia)
A Bill for an Act to provide for electoral modifers,
and for related purposes
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary ......................................................................................................... 1
1 Short title ..................................................................................................... 1
2 Commencement ........................................................................................... 1
3 Supremacy of Act ......................................................................................... 1
4 Regulations ................................................................................................... 2
5 Regulations must be tabled before parliament............................................ 2
Part 2—Electoral modifers .............................................................................................. 2
6 Simulated voters .......................................................................................... 2
7 Election modifers ......................................................................................... 3
8 Regulations not to be applied retrospectively ............................................. 4
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A Bill for an Act to provide for electoral modifers,
and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
This Act is the Electoral Modifers Act 2018.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act specifed in column 1 of the table
commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has efect
according to its terms.
Commencement information
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Provisions Commencement Date/Details
1. The whole of The day after this Act receives the Royal
this ActAssent.
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments
of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Supremacy of Act
Despite anything to the contrary in this or any other Act, if a
provision of another Act is inconsistent with a provision of this
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Act, the latter takes precedence, and the former shall, to the
extent of the inconsistency, be without force or efect.
4 Regulations
The Electoral Commissioner may make regulations not
inconsistent with this Act prescribing any matter permitted or
required by this Act to be prescribed by regulation.
5 Regulations must be tabled before parliament
A regulation made under section 4 does not come into effect until
it has been approved by resolution by each House of the
Parliament.
Part 2—Electoral modifers
6 Simulated voters
(1) For the purpose of electing members to the House of
Representatives and to the Senate, each Division in the House of
Representatives is to contain, in addition to the voters registered
in that Division under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, a
number of simulated voters, provided that the number of
simulated voters in each Division does not exceed 50% of the
total number of voters in that Division.
(2) The simulated voters are to vote in the corresponding House of
Representatives and Senate elections in accordance with this Act.
(3) The Electoral Commission must, by regulation, determine the
number of simulated voters in each Division of the House of
Representatives.
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7 Election modifers
(1) The Electoral Commission must, by regulation, determine a list of
election modifers to apply in an election, and determine how
those election modifers are to be scored.
Example: An election modifer could be voting turnout in the previous
parliamentary term, or activity in campaigning.
(2) Election modifers—
(a) must be impartial and objective; and
(b) must not be based on ideology or prejudice; and
(c) must not penalise any activity undertaken lawfully and in
good faith, irrespective of the nature or content of that
activity.
(3) Election modifers may be applied at the level of—
(a) individual candidates; and
(b) the political parties to which those candidates belong; and
(c) the coalitions to which those political parties belong; and (d)
any other level prescribed by regulation.
(4) The Election Commission must, by regulation, determine how the
scores in each level in subsection (3) are translated into the
overall scores of the individual candidates.
(5) The votes cast by simulated voters in an election must be based
on the overall scores of the individual candidates in the election
modifers.
(6) The Election Commission must, by regulation, determine how the
scores of the candidates in the election modifers are translated
into the votes cast by the simulated voters in subsection (4).
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8 Regulations not to be applied retrospectively
(1) The Electoral Commissioner must not make regulations that cause
activity undertaken or things done prior to the making of the
regulation, which were not the subject of an electoral modifier
prior to the making of the regulation, to be the subject of
electoral modifiers.
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