Change Party Secretary	
Completing this form
•	This form should be used by a registered political party or formally recognised branch to notify a change of party secretary.
•	If the AEC’s records of the party secretary are not up-to-date, other applications from the party may not be accepted and the party might not receive important election correspondence from the AEC.
•	Independent certification of the appointment of the secretary must be shown on this form.
•	Further information is provided in the Guide for maintaining party registration available at www.aec.gov.au.
•	Information on this form is collected under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Electoral Act) and is not made public.
Name of Political Party	     	
Name of previous secretary	     	
New Secretary’s details
Title	     	
Name	     	
Street address	     	
	Suburb/town	     	State      	Postcode      	
Postal address	     	
	Suburb/town	     	State      	Postcode      	
Daytime telephone	(   )       	After hours (   )       	
Mobile	     	Fax number (   )       	
Email address	     	
Signature		Date      	
Party position of secretary (director, convenor, secretary, etc.)	     		
Certification by independent party official
Because of the importance of the role of the party secretary, an independent party official such as the President, Treasurer, etc needs to certify that the secretary has been properly appointed in accordance with the party’s constitution to perform the role defined in the Electoral Act.
I declare that, under the party constitution, the above-named individual was appointed to manage the party on a day-to-day basis on ____/______/_____
		(date of appointment)	
Name of party official		
Position of party official		
Party official’s signature		…./…./….