New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY SERVICES REGULATION 2015 - REG 73

73 Costs and expenses of polls and elections

(1) A committee must ensure that provision is made in the following manner for payment of the costs and expenses of the returning officer in conducting a poll or an election:

(a) before the poll or election is conducted, the committee must pay to the returning officer an amount equal to the returning officer's estimate of the costs and expenses of the poll or election likely to be incurred by the returning officer in conducting the poll or election,

(b) the committee must give an undertaking to the returning officer to pay to the returning officer, after the poll or election is conducted, any amount by which the actual costs and expenses incurred by the returning officer in conducting the poll or election exceed the amount of the estimate.

(2) After the poll or election has been conducted, the returning officer must refund to the committee any amount by which the estimated amount of the costs and expenses of the poll or election paid by the committee in accordance with subclause (1) (a) exceeded the actual costs and expenses of that poll or election.

(3) For the purposes of the Act and paragraph (c) of the definition of
"agricultural industry service" in section 3 of the Act, the conduct of a poll or an election by a committee in accordance with the Act is declared to be an agricultural industry service.