New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 66DA

66DA Notice of application for registration

(1) If, after carrying out any preliminary tests and inquiries with respect to an application for the registration of a party, the Electoral Commissioner is satisfied that the party may be an eligible party and the application may be duly made, the Electoral Commissioner must cause a notice to be published in one or more newspapers circulating throughout New South Wales.

(2) The notice must state that the application has been received and request that any objections to the application be lodged with the Electoral Commissioner within 14 days after the date of publication of the notice.

(3) The notice must set out the particulars that are required by section 66D to be set out in the application and must state that the application can be inspected at a specified address.

(4) However, subsection (3) does not require the following particulars to be set out in the notice: the names and addresses of 750 electors, and any other particulars prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection. Nor does it require documents accompanying the application to be set out in or to accompany the notice.

(5) The Electoral Commissioner must consider all objections received during the period of 14 days, for the purpose of determining:

(a) whether the party referred to in the application is an eligible party, and

(b) whether the application was duly made, and

(c) whether the Electoral Commissioner should refuse to register the party.

(6) This section does not limit the matters that the Electoral Commissioner may take into consideration when determining the matters referred to in subsection (5).

(7) The Electoral Commissioner must not register the party until the period of 14 days has expired and all the objections have been considered.

(8) The decision of the Electoral Commissioner on any such objection is final.

(9) This section extends to an amended application referred to in section 66G (4), unless the Electoral Commissioner is of the opinion that the amendment is of a minor nature only and does not warrant publication of a further notice under this section.

(10) This section does not apply to applications received by the Electoral Commissioner before the commencement of this section, nor does it affect the registration of any party effected before that commencement.