Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A nomination must
be in an approved form and must —
(a) be
signed by the candidate; and
(b)
state the surname and each given name, the primary residential address and
occupation of the candidate and the form in which the candidate’s name
is to be printed on the ballot papers for the election; and
(ba)
include details of a means by which the candidate can be contacted in
connection with the election; and
(c) in
the case of a Council election, unless the nomination is a party nomination as
defined in section 81A(1), be accompanied by declarations in support of the
nomination, in an approved form, completed and signed by at least 250 electors
entitled to vote in the election.
(2A) Despite
subsection (1)(b), the candidate’s primary residential address is not
required to be stated on the nomination form if the candidate is a silent
elector.
(2) The statement of
the form of the candidate’s name to be printed on the ballot papers must
include the candidate’s surname and may include each, or one or more, of
the candidate’s given names.
(3) For the purposes
of subsection (2) a given name may be stated by specifying —
(a) the
name; or
(b) an
initial standing for the name; or
(c) a
commonly accepted variation of the name (including an abbreviation or
truncation of the name or an alternative form of the name).
(4) If the nomination
forms for 2 or more candidates are accompanied by a declaration completed and
signed by the same elector, the elector cannot be relied on by any of those
candidates for the purposes of subsection (1)(c).
[Section 78 amended: No. 44 of 1911 s. 43; No. 51
of 1962 s. 5; No. 79 of 1987 s. 25; No. 36 of 2000 s. 34; No. 35 of 2012 s. 7
and 12; No. 20 of 2021 s. 47; No. 30 of 2023 s. 68.]