ELECTORAL (MISCELLANEOUS) AMENDMENT ACT 2009 (NO 48 OF 2009) - SECT 19

ELECTORAL (MISCELLANEOUS) AMENDMENT ACT 2009 (NO 48 OF 2009) - SECT 19

19—Amendment of section 59—Printing of Legislative Council ballot papers

        (1)         Section 59(1)(a)—after "not included in groups" insert:

(on the basis that the groups and then the individual candidates will be placed sequentially on the ballot paper starting towards the left-hand side of the ballot paper and then moving across the ballot paper (towards the right-hand side) and, if necessary, on to and across a second or subsequent row or rows)

        (2)         Section 59(2)—delete subsection (2) and substitute:

        (2)         If notice of an intention to lodge a voting ticket or voting tickets has been given in accordance with this Division, an additional square must be printed on the ballot paper in order to provide for the casting of votes in accordance with that ticket or those tickets.