Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Mildura Irrigation and Water Trusts Act 1969 - SECT 4

Amendment of sections 8 and 49 of Principal Act

4. Amendment of sections 8 and 49 of Principal Act

The Principal Act is hereby amended as follows-

   (a)  for section 8 there shall be substituted the following section-



"8. Franchise

(1) In the election of commissioners and at any meeting of ratepayers, except
for the purposes of section 74, every person whose name appears on the voters'
list last prepared under this section shall be entitled to the number of votes
there shown against his name.

(2) Before the 1st day of June in every year, the Trust shall cause to be
prepared and affix its seal to a voters' list which-

   (a)  contains the names of every person whose name appears in the
        assessment books of the Trust on the 1st day of May in that year as
        being the occupier or owner of rateable land within the Trust District
        not being a township allotment; and

   (b)  shows against the name of each such person a number of votes (not
        exceeding eight) calculated by allowing one vote for every ten acres
        or portion of ten acres not less than two and a half acres of such
        land in respect of which his name appeared in the assessment books on
        the said 1st day of May."; and

(b) in sub-section (1) of section 49 for the words "assessment book"
there shall be substituted the words "voters' list".