New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 74

74 Date of issue of general election writs

(1) The writs for an Assembly general election are to be issued--

(a) if the Assembly has expired--on the Monday following the day on which the Assembly expired, or

(b) if the Assembly was dissolved--within 4 clear days after the day the proclamation dissolving the Assembly was published in the Gazette.

(2) A writ for a periodic Council election is to be issued on the same day as the writs for the concurrent Assembly general election are issued.

Note : Section 22A (3) of the Constitution Act 1902 provides that a writ for a periodic Council election is not be issued until after the issue of the writs for the relevant Assembly general election and, when issued, is to name as the election day for the periodic Council election the same day as was named as the election day for the Assembly general election.