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CurrentDouble candidature
Chapter 10How are people elected to civic office?
Part 3What is the system of election?
283 Double candidature
(1)
A person may be a candidate for election as mayor and a candidate for election as a councillor at the same time.
(2)
If a person is elected by the electors as mayor and the person is also a candidate for election as a councillor, the votes cast for the person as a councillor are not to be counted for that person but are to be distributed as prescribed by the regulations.
(3)
(Repealed)
Regulations
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
). Made under this Act:
- Local Government (Armidale and Inverell—Alteration of Boundaries) Proclamation 2019 · Regulation
- Local Government (Bayside) Proclamation 2016 · Regulation
- Local Government (City of Parramatta and Cumberland) Proclamation 2016 · Regulation
5 more instruments made under this Act are listed on the Act’s overview.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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