Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electoral Boundaries Commission Act 1982 - SECT 16

Effect of division upon choosing person to fill Council vacancy

16. Effect of division upon choosing person to fill Council vacancy

Where, after the day notified in the Government Gazette under section 13 in
relation to a division of electors and before the day of dissolution or other
lawful determination of the Assembly occurring next after that division, the
seat of a member for a region which was existing immediately before that
division becomes vacant, that division does not affect the choosing of a
person to occupy the vacant seat in accordance with section 27A of the
Constitution Act 1975.