New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY SERVICES REGULATION 2015 - REG 65

65 Counting of votes

(1) If there is 1 person to be elected in the election:

(a) the method of counting the votes so as to ascertain the result of the election is to be as provided by Part 2 of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution Act 1902 , and

(b) for the purpose of applying the provisions of that Part to the election, a reference in those provisions to the returning officer is to be read as a reference to the returning officer under this Part.

(2) If there are 2 or more persons to be elected in the election:

(a) the method of counting the votes so as to ascertain the result of the election is to be as provided by Part 2 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution Act 1902 , and

(b) for the purpose of applying the provisions of that Part to the election:

(i) a reference in those provisions to the Council returning officer is to be read as a reference to the returning officer under this Part, and

(ii) the quota referred to in those provisions is to be determined by dividing the number of first preference votes for all candidates by 1 more than the number of persons to be elected and by increasing the quotient so obtained (disregarding any remainder) by 1.