New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BANANA INDUSTRY ACT 1987 - SECT 16C

16C Nomination of region

(1) A banana grower who is otherwise entitled to vote in an election may at any time, by notice in writing given to the Chairperson, nominate the region in respect of which he or she intends to vote. The nomination is not valid unless the banana grower is a banana grower in relation to a plantation that is wholly or partly situated in that region.

(2) The Chairperson may at any time, by notice in writing to a banana grower, require the banana grower to make such a nomination within the time specified in the notice.

(3) If a nomination is not duly made within that time, the Chairperson is to determine the region in respect of which the banana grower is to vote (being a region in which a plantation is wholly or partly situated on which bananas are grown by or behalf of the banana grower). The Chairperson is to give notice of that determination to the banana grower as soon as practicable after it is made.

(4) Once a nomination by, or determination with respect to, a banana grower is made under this section, it cannot be changed by further nomination or determination except in special circumstances approved by the Chairperson. For example, the Chairperson may approve a banana grower changing the region in which he or she is entitled to vote because the banana grower is no longer a banana grower in relation to a plantation situated in the region previously nominated.