New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 106A

106A Printing of party logo on ballot papers

(1) Assembly elections The registered logo of a registered party must be printed on the ballot papers adjacent to the name of a candidate in an Assembly election if--

(a) the candidate has been nominated by the registered officer of the registered party as a candidate in the election, and

(b) a request has been made for the candidate under section 104(1A).

(2) Periodic Council elections This subsection applies if--

(a) 2 or more persons have been nominated as candidates in a periodic Council election by 1 or more registered officers of registered parties, and

(b) the candidates have duly requested under Division 3 a group voting square for the purposes of the election, and

(c) a request has been made for the candidates under section 104(1A).

(3) If subsection (2) applies, the following requirements apply to the printing of the ballot papers in the periodic Council election--

(a) if all the candidates were endorsed by the same party and a group voting square is printed on the ballot papers in relation to the candidates--the registered logo of the registered party must be printed on the ballot papers adjacent to that square,

(b) if the request under this Subdivision included a request that a composite name be printed adjacent to the group voting square on the ballot papers in relation to the candidates--the registered logos of the registered parties must be printed on the ballot papers adjacent to that square.