New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

STRATA SCHEMES MANAGEMENT REGULATION 2005 - REG 18

18 Ballot for executive committee

(1) If a ballot for membership of the executive committee of an owners corporation is required, the chairperson must:

(a) announce to the meeting the name of each candidate and the nominator of the candidate, and

(b) provide each person present and entitled to vote at the meeting with a blank ballot-paper for each vote the person is entitled to cast.

(2) For a vote to be valid, a ballot-paper must be signed by the voter and completed by the voter’s writing on it:

(a) the names of the candidates (without repeating a name) for whom the voter desires to vote, the number of names written being no more than the number determined by the owners corporation as the number of members of the executive committee, and

(b) the capacity in which the voter is exercising a right to vote, whether:

(i) as owner, first mortgagee or covenant chargee of a lot (identifying the lot), or

(ii) as a company nominee, or

(iii) by proxy, and

(c) if the vote is being cast by proxy-the name and capacity of the person who gave the proxy.

(3) The completed ballot-paper must be returned to the chairperson.

(4) Until all places for membership of the executive committee have been filled, the chairperson is to declare elected successively each candidate who has a greater number of votes than another candidate who has not been elected.

(5) If only one place remains to be filled but there are 2 or more eligible candidates with an equal number of votes, the candidate to fill the place is to be decided by a show of hands of those present and entitled to vote.