(b) in any other case--during the period
beginning on the issue of the writs and ending at 12 noon on the
nomination day.
Note : Section 24 (1) of the Constitution Act 1902 provides
that Legislative Assembly, unless sooner dissolved, expires on the Friday
before the first Saturday in March in the fourth calendar year after the
calendar year in which the return of the writs for choosing that Assembly
occurred.
The Legislative Assembly elected at the 2015 general election will, unless
sooner dissolved, expire on Friday 1 March 2019.
Subsection (3) (a) provides that the Electoral Commissioner may accept
nomination papers for that election only during the period beginning on Monday
25 February 2019 and ending at 12 noon on Wednesday 6 March 2019.
(4) A
nomination paper is to specify the form of given name that the candidate
wishes to be printed on the ballot papers for the election.
(5) A given name
of a candidate specified in a nomination paper under this section as the form
in which that name should be printed on the ballot papers for the election may
differ from the name under which the candidate is enrolled only to the extent
that the given name is specified by--
(a) an initial standing for that name,
or
(b) a commonly accepted variation of the name (including an abbreviation
or truncation of that name or an alternative form of that name), or
(c) a
commonly used other name specific to the candidate by which the candidate is
usually identified (if the Electoral Commissioner is satisfied that the
proposed name is a commonly used other name specific to the candidate by which
the candidate is usually identified).
