South Eastern Water Conservation and Drainage Act 1992

The voters roll for the purposes of an election to fill a vacancy on the

The following persons are entitled to be enrolled on the voters roll for an electoral zone:

a natural person who is the sole owner or occupier of more than 10 hectares of land in the zone;

a body corporate that is the sole owner or occupier of more than 10 hectares of land in the zone;

a group of persons (consisting of natural persons, bodies corporate or partly natural persons and partly bodies corporate)—

who are joint owners, owners in common or joint occupiers of more than

at least one of whom is not enrolled on the roll for the zone under paragraph (a) or (b).

A body corporate or a group that is entitled to be enrolled on a voters roll in pursuance of subsection (2) may, by notice in writing (in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed declarations) lodged with the Board—

nominate a natural person to act as an elector on its behalf; or

cancel any such nomination previously made and make a fresh nomination in its place.

A person may not be nominated as the nominated agent of a body corporate or a group under subsection (3) unless that person—

in the case of a nomination made by a body corporate—is a director, manager or other employee of the body corporate;

in the case of a nomination by a group—is a member of the group or a director, manager or other employee of a body corporate that is a member of the group.

A nomination in force under this section must be recorded by the Board in the voters roll alongside the name of the body corporate or group by which the nomination was made.

A person whose name is recorded in the voters roll as a nominated agent will be regarded as having been enrolled as an elector.

The validity of a voters roll is not affected by a misdescription or any other error in the roll.

The following persons are entitled to vote at an election for an electoral zone:

a natural person whose name appears on the electoral roll as an elector for the zone; and

in the case of a group of natural persons that is on the electoral roll as an elector for the zone but in respect of which no nomination under subsection (3) is in force—the member of the group whose name is listed first on the electoral roll, (the electoral roll referred to in this subsection being the electoral roll as in force on the day on which nominations for the election open).

A person who is entitled to vote at an election as a member of a group pursuant to subsection (8)(b) will, for the purposes of subsections (9) and (10), be taken to be the nominated agent for that group.

Where an elector's name appears in the voters roll used for an election both as an elector in his or her own right and as a nominated agent, the elector is entitled to vote at the election both in his or her own right and as a nominated agent.

Where an elector's name appears in the voters roll used for an election as a nominated agent under a number of separate nominations, the elector is entitled to vote at the election in respect of each of those nominations.

The voters roll to be used for an election must be made available for inspection by members of the public at the Board's principal office.

A voters roll is conclusive evidence of the entitlement of any person whose name appears in the roll to vote at an election at which the roll is used.

A person whose name has been omitted in error from a voters roll used for an election is entitled to vote at the election as if the error had not occurred.