New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 296

296 Elections to be administered by general manager of council or Electoral Commissioner

(1) Elections for the purposes of this Chapter are to be administered by the general manager of the council concerned.

Note: Section 18 provides that certain provisions of this Act (relating to the conduct of elections) apply to council polls and constitutional referendums, with such modifications as may be necessary, in the same way as they apply to elections.

(2) Despite subsection (1), a council may resolve that the council is to enter into a contract or make arrangements with the Electoral Commissioner for the Electoral Commissioner to administer all elections for the council for the purposes of this Chapter.

(3) Such a resolution may only be made within 12 months after an ordinary election of councillors for the council’s area.

(4) If such a contract is entered into or such arrangements made, the Electoral Commissioner is to administer all the elections of the council until the conclusion of the following ordinary election for councillors.

(5) In this section, "election" does not include an election of the mayor or a deputy mayor by the councillors.