Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 641

641 Requirements for second or subsequent stage

The organisation’s rules must state the following for an election at the second or a subsequent stage of a collegiate electoral system—

(a) who may nominate as a candidate for election;

(b) how a person may nominate and become a candidate;

(c) that a candidate must be declared elected if the number of candidates for election is not more than the number of officers to be elected for the organisation;

(d) that, if there are more candidates than the number of officers to be elected for the organisation, a secret ballot must be conducted to decide the election;

(e) that if a ballot must be conducted—

(i) how the ballot must be conducted; and

(ii) the methods of voting and deciding the result of the ballot; and

(iii) that a person who may vote in the ballot (a
"voter" ) may vote by an absentee or proxy vote; and

(iv) how a voter may vote by an absentee or proxy vote; and

(v) that scrutineers may be appointed for candidates for election; and

(vi) the functions of scrutineers.