Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) At an election of the mayor each elector shall have 1 vote only.
(1A) At an election of a councillor (other than the mayor) each elector shall have 1 vote only.
(2) The election shall be held on a Saturday.
(3) For the purposes of the quadrennial election of the mayor and other councillors, there shall be an electoral roll for each electoral ward.
(3A) The electoral roll for an electoral ward--
(a) shall consist of the names of all electors registered under the Electoral Act as living in an electoral district or districts or parts thereof comprised within the electoral ward in question on the 31 January in the year in which the quadrennial election in question is to be held with all corrections of and erasures therefrom made under and pursuant to the Electoral Act;
(b) shall be in the form prescribed therefor by the Electoral Act subject to all necessary adaptations and shall be prepared by the Electoral Commission at the cost and expense of the council but in lieu of an electoral roll in that form, wherever practicable in the opinion of the Electoral Commission, use may be made of the electoral roll or rolls (as compiled up to the 31 January in the year in which the quadrennial election in question is to be held) of the electoral district or districts wholly or partly comprised within the electoral ward in question with all corrections and erasures therefrom under and pursuant to the Electoral Act and with such eliminations from or corrections in such electoral roll or rolls as are necessary in consequence of a part or parts of any electoral district in question not being comprised within the electoral ward in question.
(3B) The electoral roll prepared in pursuance of subsection (3A) for an electoral ward shall be the roll of electors entitled to vote in that electoral ward and shall be conclusive evidence of the title of every person therein named to vote.
(4) The chief returning officer or, if under section 17A the electoral commission conducts the election, the commission, shall give public notice of every election by advertisement in some newspaper published in the city, and the notice shall specify a day not less than 14 nor more than 21 days after the publication of the notice of election as the day of nomination.
(5) The Electoral Act applies to the conduct of elections with any necessary changes and any changes prescribed by regulation.
(6) For the purpose of applying the Electoral Act to elections--
(a) the chief returning officer has the powers and functions of the Electoral Commission and returning officers under the Electoral Act; and
(b) returning officers have the powers and functions of returning officers under the Electoral Act.
(7) The chief returning officer may delegate the officer's powers under this Act to a returning officer.