New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 101

101 Assembly election ballot papers

(1) The Electoral Commissioner is to determine the order in which the candidates' names are to appear on the ballot papers for an election for a district.

(2) The Electoral Commissioner may use any method of random selection as seems appropriate to the Electoral Commissioner to determine that order.

(3) In printing the ballot papers--

(a) the names of all candidates duly nominated are to appear on the ballot papers in the order determined under subsection (1), and

(b) the surname of each candidate is to be in a more conspicuous type than that used for the candidate's given name or names, and

(c) the given name of each candidate--

(i) is to be in the form specified in the candidate's nomination paper, and

(ii) is to be in a less conspicuous type than the type in which the candidate's surname is printed, and

(iii) may be printed on a line after the line on which the candidate's surname is printed, and

(d) if a similarity in the names of 2 or more candidates is likely to cause confusion, the Electoral Commissioner may arrange the names with such description or addition as will distinguish them from one another, and

(e) a square is to be printed opposite the name of each candidate, and

(f) if required by Subdivision 2, the names of registered parties and logos, or the word "Independent" and the candidate's logo, are to be printed in accordance with that Subdivision.