Tips on filling in your electoral enrolment form

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Who should enrol and vote?

All Australian citizens who are aged 18 or older and have lived at their current address for at least one month must enrol and vote. You may enrol when you are 17, but cannot vote until you are 18.

When should you enrol?

If you are not on the electoral roll when a federal election is called, you may not have time to enrol to vote. ENROL NOW.

What happens when you return your form?

Once your application is received, it is checked to make sure that your details are correct and then your name and address is placed on the electoral roll for federal, state and local government elections if you are eligible. If you have not received written con?rmation of your enrolment within 3 weeks of applying, please call the Australian Electoral Commission on 13 23 26.

How to fill in this form

Fill the form out in English Use block letters like this

If you make mistakes cross it out and continue

Write dates like this (dd/mm/yyyy)

Use black or blue ink

Use crosses
in the boxes where appropriate

Read all the instructions to be sure you understand what is required to ?ll in the form

Answering the questions

Question 1.

Put an X in the box that best describes your title (Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Other) as well as writing in your family name and given names.

Question 2.

Fill in the address where you live (House/Unit number, Street name, City, State and Postcode).

Question 3.

If you receive mail at a different address than where you live, tell us that address. If you get mail where you live, leave this section blank.

Question 4.

Fill in your daytime or mobile phone number and email address if you have one.

Question 5.

Fill in your date of birth (day/month/year). For “Gender”, put “F” if you are female, or “M” if you are male.

Question 6.

Let us know if you are enrolling for the ?rst time. Mark X in the “Yes” box if it is the ?rst time and then go to Question 7. If you are updating your address or your name, put an X in the “No” box and then either tell us your old address where you were enrolled before or your name before you changed it.

Question 7.

This question is about Australian citizenship. If you were born in Australia, mark X in the “Yes” box and write in the city in which you were born. If you are an Australian citizen by birth but were not born in Australia, please provide information at Question 11 on page 3. Then go to Question 8 at the bottom of page 3.

If you were not born in Australia, mark X in the “No” box and write in your country of birth.

The next question is about if you have been granted Australian citizenship. If you have been granted Australian citizenship mark X in the next “Yes” box and include your citizenship certi?cate number. If you need to add more details about your citizenship, for example, if you arrived in Australia under a different name, please include these details at Question 11 on page 3.

If you have not been granted Australian citizenship, mark X in the “No” box. If you are an eligible British subject who was enrolled on 25th January 1984, mark X in the “Yes” box. If not, put an X in the “No” box (you may not be eligible to enrol to vote). Call the AEC on 13 23 26.

Question 8.

If you have an Australian driver’s licence please include the licence number and the State or Territory that issued it.

Question 9.

Sign your name and write in today’s date (day/month/year) if:

you believe that you are eligible to enrol at your current address
all the information that you have put on this form is true and complete and
you understand that it is against the law to give false or misleading information If you are unable to sign your name, make a mark in front of a witness and the witness must then write their full name and sign next to the box that you marked.

Question 10.

This question is about proof of identity (proving who you are).

If you have an Australian driver’s licence, circle A. You are now ?nished the enrolment form. See instructions on returning the form in the ‘Return This Form’ section.
If you don’t have an Australian driver’s licence but have an original of ONE of the documents listed below, circle B and put an X in the box that describes what proof of identity document you have.
Birth certi?cate, or an extract (must be Australian and issued at least 5 years ago)
Certi?cate of Australian citizenship
Concession card from Centrelink (must be current)
Concession card from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (must be current)
Credit or bank account card (must be current)
Defence force, Australian discharge certi?cate
Divorce documents from the Family Court of Australia
Student identi?cation card (must be current with a photograph)
Security guard/crowd control licence (must be current)
Passport (must be Australian and current)
Medicare card
Marriage certi?cate (must be registered in Australia)
Firearms licence (must be current with a photograph and signature)
Justice of the Peace appointment document (must be Australian)
Employee identi?cation card (must be current with a photograph and signature)
Proof of age card issued by, or under the authority of, a State or Territory government

You need an authorised person who is on the electoral roll to see your original document and ?ll in this section of the enrolment form (see below for the list of authorised people). They need to write your name on the form, write their name and address, and then sign the declaration in Part B saying that they have seen the document. They also need to write down the Authorisation number that best describes them from the list below:

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander incorporated organization committee member or chairperson
Accountant (must be a registered tax agent)
Airline passenger carrier ground staff
Australian Electoral Commission or other state or territory electoral authority staff
Bank, credit union or building society of?cer (except the manager of a bank travel centre)
Clerk, sheriff or bailiff of a court
Commissioner for Af?davits, Declarations or Oaths
Commonwealth, state or territory government full-time permanent or part-time employee (includes authorities)
Commonwealth, state or territory Member of Parliament or local government councillor or member of their staff
Defence force member
Dentist
Diplomatic or consular of?cer (except an honorary consular of?cer)
Engineer, chartered professional or member of the Association of Consulting Engineers
Finance Company of?cer
Justice of the Peace
Liquor licence holder (must be current)
Manager of a community, ethnic or remote resource centre
Manager of a women’s refuge or crisis and counselling centre
Marriage celebrant (within the meaning of the Marriage Act 1961)
Marriage counsellor (within the meaning of Family Law Act 1975)
Master of a merchant vessel
Medical Practitioner
Member of the Association of Taxation and Management Accountants
Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of Australia
Minister of Religion (within the meaning of the Marriage Act 1961)
Nurse, registered or enrolled
Person employed as a remote resource centre visitor
Pharmacist
Physiotherapist
Pilot (must hold a current licence)
Police of?cer or police aide
Postal manager or other permanent Australia Post employee
Prison of?cer
Real estate agent (must be licensed or registered)
Statutory of?ce holder receiving an annual salary
Surveyor (must be registered or licensed)
Teacher (primary, secondary or tertiary) (must be full-time permanent or part-time and currently employed)
Veterinary Surgeon
A person not listed above before whom statutory declarations may be made under a law of the Commonwealth, state or territory

If you don’t have an Australian driver’s licence OR one of the documents listed above, you will need to have TWO people who have known you for at least a month to sign Part C. These people can be friends or neighbours and they have to be on the electoral roll. The people will need to write their name and address and sign part C.

You are now ?nished the enrolment form. See instructions on returning the form below.

Question 11.

Use this space only if you need to provide more information from questions 2 or 7 (if all your details didn’t ?t in the space we provided on those questions).

Returning this form

Post the form in the reply paid envelope provided or send it to:

Australian Electoral Commission Reply Paid 9867 In your capital city (for example Sydney, Perth or Brisbane) (No stamp is needed if you post it in Australia)

State-Specific Information

If you live in the Northern Territory, NSW, Queensland or Western Australia: in Question 5, please tell us your occupation.

If you live in South Australia: in Question 5, put an X in the box if you agree to your gender, place of birth and age range being given to Members of State Parliament. The form has a space for this.

If you live in Victoria or Western Australia: in Question 9 you will need a witness who is on the Victorian or Western Australian electoral roll to watch you sign your name. The witness needs to give their name, sign the form and give their address. The forms for Victoria and Western Australia will ask for these details.

If you need more information

For more help contact the Australian Electoral Commission on 13 23 26 or go to www.aec.gov.au.