Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person shall not
be capable of being elected at an election unless he —
(a) duly
nominates himself; and
(b) is
qualified to be elected and is not disqualified from being elected as, or from
being, a member of the House for which the election is being held.
(2)
Where —
(a) a
day is fixed as the polling day for 2 or more elections; and
(b) at
the hour of nomination there exist nominations of a person for 2 or more of
those elections,
each of those
nominations is invalid.
(3) For the purposes
of subsection (2) where a person has nominated himself in relation to an
election and the person withdraws that nomination under section 82 before
the hour of nomination, the nomination of the person for the election shall be
taken to have ceased to have effect at the time when the person withdraws that
nomination.
(3a) If a person who
is not qualified under section 76A nominates himself as a candidate in an
election, the nomination is invalid.
(4) A person shall not
nominate himself as a candidate in an election if, prior to and until the hour
of nomination, he is, either by this Act or any other Act, disqualified from
being elected at that election as, or from being, a member of the House for
which the election is being held.
Penalty: $1 000.
(5) A nomination made
in contravention of subsection (4) is invalid.
[Section 77 inserted by No. 40 of 1987
s. 42; amended by No. 50 of 2003 s. 56(2); No. 64 of 2006
s. 28 and 53.]