Change Registered Officer 
for a Parliamentary party	
Completing this form
•	This form should be used by a registered Parliamentary political party to notify a change of registered officer. 
•	A Parliamentary party is a party which has a member, or members, in the Australian Parliament.
•	Further information is provided in the Guide for maintaining party registration available at www.aec.gov.au.
•	The information requested on this form is collected under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918. 
•	The name and street address of the registered officer are made public on the AEC’s website. A registered officer might prefer to give the party office street address rather than their residential address.
Name of political party	     	

If a request to appoint a new registered officer is not signed by the current registered officer, the AEC must write to that person giving them 7 days to advise any reason why the new appointment should not be made.

Name of current registered officer	     	
Signature		Date:	

Role of the registered officer
A registered officer can nominate the party’s endorsed candidates in a federal election and appoint deputy registered officers to do the same. The AEC sends all formal correspondence about the registration of the party to the registered officer.
An appointment takes a few days to be available to AEC Returning Officers throughout Australia, so any new appointment form should be lodged with the AEC well before the close of nominations in an election.
Note: An individual cannot hold the position of registered officer or deputy registered officer, or both, for more than one federally registered political party.

You must also complete all relevant pages of this form. 

Proposed registered officer details
Party name	     	
Title	     	
Name	     	
Street address*	     	
	Suburb/town	     	State      	Postcode      	
Postal Address	     				
	Suburb/town	     	State      	Postcode      	
Daytime	Telephone (   )       	After hours (   )       	
Mobile	     	Fax number (   )       	
Email address	     	
	I am not appointed as a registered officer or deputy registered officer for any other federally registered political party.	
Signature		…./…./….	

*Note: It is a requirement under Part XI of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 that the street address for the registered officer is published on the AEC website in the Register of Political Parties. The street address does not have to be the registered officer’s residential address and can be an alternate street address such as the party’s office street address. 
 I acknowledge that the street address listed above will be published on the AEC’s website.

Applicant details
This application must be made by the party secretary or by all of the federal Parliamentary members of the party. All members of the party must be on the Commonwealth Electoral Roll. 
If the application is being made by the secretary of the Parliamentary Party:
I hereby apply for the amendments detailed above to be effected to the Register of Political Parties.
Name	     	
Capacity	Party Secretary	
Street address	     	
	Suburb/town	     	State      	Postcode      	
Daytime telephone	(   )       	After hours (   )       	
Mobile	     	Fax number (   )       	
Email address	     	
Signature		Date      …./…./….	

ALTERNATIVELY
If the application is not made by the party secretary, it must be made by all the party’s Parliamentary members:
We the following Senators and Members of the House of Representatives (MHR) declare that we are members of the party. We have each supplied a letter on our Parliamentary letterhead to the secretary of the Party confirming this.

Parliamentarian’s name	SENATOR / MHR	
Signature
…/…/…	Parliament House
Canberra	
		
Parliamentarian’s name	SENATOR / MHR	
Signature
…/…/…	Parliament House
Canberra	
		
Parliamentarian’s name	SENATOR / MHR	
Signature
…/…/…	Parliament House
Canberra	
		
Parliamentarian’s name	SENATOR / MHR	
Signature
…/…/…	Parliament House
Canberra	
		
Parliamentarian’s name	SENATOR / MHR	
Signature
…/…/…	Parliament House
Canberra	
		
Parliamentarian’s name	SENATOR / MHR	
Signature
…/…/…	Parliament House
Canberra	
		
Parliamentarian’s name	SENATOR / MHR	
Signature
…/…/…	Parliament House
Canberra	

Attach further sheets as necessary