New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 269

269 Who is a “resident” for the purposes of this Part?

(1) For the purposes of this Part, a person is a resident of a ward if:

(a) the person is, within the meaning of the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 , enrolled on the roll for an electoral district, and

(b) the person’s place of living as described on that roll is in the ward or (in the case of a person whose place of living is not described on that roll) the person’s place of living is in the ward.

(3) In this section, "place of living" includes the place of residence to which a person temporarily residing elsewhere intends to return in order to continue living there.