Local Government (General) Regulation 2021

On the day after the nomination day, or as soon as practicable after that day, and in the presence of scrutineers and any reasonable number of other persons who choose to be present, the returning officer is to do the following—

attend an approved place, and

announce any withdrawals of nominations, and

cancel the nomination papers of the persons who have withdrawn, and

nominate as candidates for election the persons whose nomination papers the returning officer believes to be valid and that have not been cancelled.

The name under which the returning officer is to nominate a person as a candidate for election is—

the name under which the person has requested, in the consent to that person’s nomination paper, that the person be shown on the ballot-papers, or

if the returning officer is not satisfied that that name is either one of the given names of the person or a generally recognised abbreviation or derivative of one of the given names together with the full surname of the person—the first given name and the surname of the person.

On or as soon as practicable after the nomination day, the returning officer is to deliver or send to the election manager a list or lists of—

the persons proposed for nomination and the names under which the persons have requested, in the consents to their nomination papers, that they be shown on the ballot-papers and of the wards or area for which they are proposed, and

the persons nominated as candidates under subsection (1).

Within 6 days after the nomination day, the returning officer (in relation to an election administered by an electoral services provider) is to deliver or send to the Electoral Commissioner copies of all nomination papers (including the candidate information sheets that accompany the nomination papers).

The Electoral Commissioner may use the information contained in any copy of a nomination paper sent to the Electoral Commissioner under subsection (4), and any nomination paper in the possession of a returning officer for an election administered by the Electoral Commissioner, for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the Act and this Regulation and exercising functions under the Electoral Funding Act 2018.