ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT REGULATION 2000 - REG 268ZG
Counting of votes
ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT REGULATION 2000 - REG 268ZG
Counting of votes
268ZG Counting of votes
(1) As soon as practicable after the date fixed for
the closing of the consent ballot, the returning officer must, in the presence
of such scrutineers as are appointed by the authority conducting the ballot,
open the ballot box and deal with the contents in accordance with this clause.
(2) The returning officer must--
(a) examine the outer envelopes, and
(b) if
a duplicate outer envelope has been issued and the original outer envelope is
received, reject the original envelope and mark it "rejected", and
(c) mark
the owner's name on the roll by drawing a line through the name and the lots
of land to which the envelope relates, and
(d) remove the inner envelopes
from the outer envelopes, and
(e) when all the inner envelopes have been
dealt with in the above manner, open all unrejected inner envelopes and take
the ballot papers from them.
(3) The ballot papers must be scrutinised by the
returning officer who must count as informal any ballot paper that--
(a) is
not duly initialled by the returning officer or appointed assistant or does
not bear a mark that identifies it as a genuine ballot paper, or
(b) is so
imperfectly completed that the intention of the voter cannot be ascertained by
the returning officer, or
(c) has not been completed as prescribed on the
ballot paper itself.
(4) If a lot of land is owned by a group of co-owners,
the votes are to be counted as follows--
(a) if all the co-owners or a
majority of the co-owners of the lot cast a formal vote in favour of the
development plan, the vote in respect of the lot is taken to be one formal
vote consenting to the development plan for the lot,
(b) in any other case,
the vote is taken not to be a formal vote in favour of consent to the
development plan in respect of the lot.
