Victorian Consolidated Regulations

CITY OF MELBOURNE (ELECTORAL) REGULATIONS 2022 - REG 5

In these Regulations—

"authorised deposit-taking institution" has the same meaning as in the Banking Act 1959 of the Commonwealth;

"candidate information" means—

        (a)     in relation to candidates standing jointly for the office of Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor, joint statements, photographs of the candidates and indications of preferences; or

        (b)     in relation to a candidate for the office of Councillor who is a member of a group and in relation to the ward or municipal district for which the voter is entitled to vote, group statements, photographs of group members and one or more group voting tickets; or

        (c)     in relation to a candidate for the office of Councillor who is not a member of a group and in relation to the ward or municipal district for which the voter is entitled to vote, candidate statements, photographs of the candidates and indications of preferences;

candidate statement means the statement lodged by a candidate in accordance with regulation 28;

"Chief Executive Officer" means the person appointed by the Council under section 44 of the Local Government Act 2020 to be its Chief Executive Officer or any person acting in that position;

"Council" means the Melbourne City Council;

"Councillor" means a Councillor referred to in section 6(1)(c) of the Act;

election manager means a person appointed as election manager under regulation 21(1) of the Local Government (Electoral) Regulations 2020 ;

"group" means 2 or more candidates for Councillor who make a valid request under clause 3 of Schedule 1 to the Act for their names to be grouped on the ballot-paper;

group statement means a statement lodged under regulation 29 ;

"group voting ticket" means a group voting ticket registered under Schedule 1 to the Act;

"indication of preferences" means a document containing an indication of the preferred order of voting of—

        (a)     a candidate; or

        (b)     a pair of candidates for the office of Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor;

joint statement means a statement lodged under regulation 27 ;

"silent voter" means—

        (a)     a voter whose request to be a silent voter has been granted under section 10 of the Act; or

        (b)     an elector whose address is not shown on the relevant Roll under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 of the Commonwealth; or

        (c)     a silent elector within the meaning of the Electoral Act 2002 ;

"the Act" means the City of Melbourne Act 2001 .