New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY SERVICES REGULATION 2015 - REG 46

46 Preparation of preliminary roll

(1) As soon as practicable after it becomes apparent to the returning officer that a ballot is required to be held in respect of an election, the returning officer must cause notice of that fact to be sent to the appropriate officer.

(2) The appropriate officer must provide the returning officer with:

(a) a preliminary roll, and

(b) an appropriately addressed label, or an appropriately addressed envelope, for each person whose name is included in that roll, or an electronic data file that would allow such labels or envelopes to be generated.

(3) In subclause (2),
"preliminary roll" means:

(a) in relation to an election for a committee where the committee's area of operations has not been divided into electoral districts:

(i) for the first election for a committee after a poll referred to in section 4 (2) (b) of the Act--a list of persons whose names were included on the final roll prepared for that poll, and

(ii) for any other election for a committee--a list of persons whose names are included on the committee's register of constituents, and

(b) in relation to an election for an electoral district:

(i) for the first election for that electoral district--a list of persons who, in the Secretary's opinion, are entitled in accordance with the Act and the committee's foundation regulation to vote in an election for that electoral district, and

(ii) for any other election for that electoral district--a list of persons whose names are included on the committee's register of constituents as persons who are entitled in accordance with the Act and the committee's foundation regulation to vote in an election for that electoral district.

(4) The preliminary roll:

(a) must contain:

(i) the full names (consecutively numbered and listed in alphabetical order) and addresses of the persons whose names are included in the roll, and

(ii) if a primary producer has nominated a person to be its nominee--the full name and address of the nominee, and

(iii) if the committee's foundation regulation has provided for differing voting entitlements for the committee's constituents--the voting entitlements of those constituents, and

(b) must be certified by the appropriate officer in accordance with Form 1.