New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 87

87 If group falls below 15 members

(1) The candidates who are included in a group for a periodic Council election (the
"primary group" ) and who have duly requested a group voting square for the election, are required to nominate, for the purposes of section 168, one other group of candidates in the election for whom a second preference vote is taken to be recorded on all ballot papers on which only a first preference vote is recorded for the primary group if that group ceases to have 15 candidates because of the operation of section 86 (8).

(2) The following provisions apply to nominations under subsection (1)--

(a) A nomination may be made at the time the candidates request a group voting square for the election or within 24 hours after the close of nominations for the election. However, the Electoral Commissioner may accept a late nomination so long as it is made before election day.

(b) A nomination may be made on behalf of the candidates in the group by the first candidate in the group or by the registered officer of a registered party that has nominated all or any of the candidates for the election.

(c) A group of candidates is not eligible to be nominated unless the candidates in that group have duly requested a group voting square for the election.

(d) The Electoral Commissioner is to cause notice of the nominations to be publicly advertised on the Electoral Commission's website as soon as is reasonably practicable.

(e) After a nomination has been lodged with the Electoral Commissioner in respect of the election--

(i) the nomination may not be changed, and

(ii) a further nomination may not be made for the election by or on behalf of any of the candidates concerned.