ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 104 Notification of party nomination

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 104

104 Notification of party nomination

(1) The registered officer of a registered party may request that either the registered name of that party or the registered abbreviation of the name of that party be printed on the ballot papers for an election adjacent to the name of a candidate who has been nominated by that registered officer.

(2) Any such request is to be in writing signed by the person making the request.

(3) Any such request is to be given before 12 noon on the nomination day to the Electoral Commissioner.

(4) If--

(a) the registered officer of a registered party has made a request in respect of candidates in a periodic Council election, and

(b) the candidates have duly requested under Division 3 a group voting square for the purposes of the election,

the request may include a further request that the name of that registered party (or a composite name formed from names of the registered parties of the registered officers that nominated the candidates) be printed on the ballot papers adjacent to the candidates' group voting square.

(5) A reference in this section to a registered name or abbreviation is a reference to a name or abbreviation entered in the Register of Parties under Part 6.