New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CITY OF SYDNEY ACT 1988 - SECT 22

22 Compulsory voting

(1) Electors whose names are on the residential roll, the non-residential roll or the roll of occupiers and ratepaying lessees must vote at a contested election for the City of Sydney, unless exempt from voting under the Principal Act or this Act. Section 286 of the Principal Act does not apply to a contested election for the City of Sydney.

(2) In the application of Division 4 of Part 6 of Chapter 10 of the Principal Act to any such election:

(a) a reference in those provisions to a resident is to be read as including a reference to a person included on the non-residential roll or the roll of occupiers and ratepaying lessees for the election, and

(b) a reference in those provisions to a residential roll is to be read as including a reference to the non-residential roll or the roll of occupiers and ratepaying lessees for the election.