New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 46

46 Authorised roll of electors to be prepared for each election

(1) The Electoral Commissioner is to prepare an authorised roll of electors for a district for use at voting centres at an election.

(2) An authorised roll--

(a) must be prepared by the Electoral Commissioner as soon as practicable after the issue of the writ for an election, and

(b) must be prepared by the Electoral Commissioner when so required under any other Act, and

(c) may contain only the following information--

(i) the surname, given name or names, date of birth and sex of each elector,

(ii) the residence of the elector (except in relation to an eligible overseas elector or an itinerant elector), and

Section 36 (Silent electors: request for address to be omitted from authorised rolls or any other list of electors) provides for the exclusion of the address of an elector from an authorised roll in certain circumstances.

(d) may be in a form determined by the Electoral Commissioner.

(3) A person who will not attain 18 years of age on or by the election day for an election is not entitled to be included on an authorised roll prepared by the Electoral Commissioner in relation to the election.