Western Australian Current Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.42

4.42 .         Supply of rolls to returning officer, members and candidates

        (1)         The CEO is to ensure that the returning officer has as many copies of the residents and owners and occupiers rolls as he or she may require for the purposes of the election.

        (2)         Copies of rolls are to be supplied, free of charge, to members of the council and candidates in accordance with regulations.

        (3)         Regulations may require, or otherwise make provision in relation to, any of the following in relation to a copy of a roll supplied under subsection (1) or (2) (the supplied copy ) —

            (a)         the destruction of the supplied copy;

            (b)         if the supplied copy is in electronic form — the deletion of the supplied copy;

            (c)         the making of a statutory declaration relating to the destruction or deletion of the supplied copy and the providing of the statutory declaration to the CEO or Electoral Commissioner.

        (4)         In subsection (3)(a) to (c), references to the supplied copy include —

            (a)         other copies of the roll, or other documents or information, derived (directly or indirectly and wholly or partly) from the supplied copy; and

            (b)         any documents or information containing details supplied under section 4.43(3b) relating to the roll.

        [Section 4.42 amended: No. 11 of 2023 s. 36.]