New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RICE MARKETING ACT 1983 - SECT 9

9 Electoral districts

(1) The Governor may, by proclamation, appoint electoral districts for an election and fix the number of persons who may be elected from each such district.

(2) A person is not entitled to be a candidate for more than one electoral district at any election.

(3) The Governor may, by proclamation, vary or abolish any electoral district or vary the number of persons who may be elected from any such district.

(4) A decrease in the number of elected members for an electoral district operates as from the expiration of the term of office of the then current elected members of the board concerned.

(5) Notwithstanding subsection (4), a decrease in the number of elected members for an electoral district operates immediately, if there is, at the time the proclamation under subsection (3) takes effect, a corresponding number of vacancies in the offices of elected members for the district.

(6) Nothing in this section authorises the number of elected members of a board to be greater than the number authorised under the other provisions of this Act.