Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2004 - SECT 79

      (1) As soon as practicable after receiving a nomination, the Commissioner or the returning officer is to endorse the nomination form as accepted if he or she is satisfied that –

(a) the nomination is in accordance with section 77; and

(b) the person being nominated is not known by the Commissioner or the returning officer to be ineligible under section 76 to be nominated.

      (2) The acceptance of a nomination by the Commissioner or the returning officer is conclusive evidence that –

(a) if the nomination was lodged under section 77(2), at least 10 of the nominators were nominators eligible under section 77(2)(c); or

(b) if the nomination was lodged under section 77(3) or (5), the nominator was the registered officer of the relevant registered party; or

(c) if the nomination was lodged under section 77(4), at least 100 of the nominators were nominators eligible under section 77(4)(c).