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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.1A

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.1A

4.1A .         Conflict with Commonwealth or State election or referendum

        (1)         On a day fixed as polling day for the whole of State electorate or a district under the Electoral Act 1907 , no election, referendum or other poll is to be held under this Act in, or in any part of, that electorate or district.

        (2)         On a day fixed for the holding of a referendum, as defined in the Electoral Act 1907 , no election, referendum or other poll is to be held under this Act.

        (3)         On a day appointed under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 as polling day for an election of Senators for the State, no election, referendum or other poll is to be held under this Act.

        (4)         On a day appointed as polling day for an election of the House of Representatives for an Electoral Division in the State under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 , no election, referendum or other poll is to be held under this Act in, or in any part of, that Electoral Division.

        (5)         On a day fixed as voting day in the State, or an Electoral Division in the State under the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 of the Commonwealth, no election, referendum or other poll is to be held under this Act in the State, or in any part of that Electoral Division, as is relevant.

        (6)         In this section —

        Electoral Division has the same meaning as it has in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 .

        [Section 4.1A inserted: No. 49 of 2004 s. 30(1); amended: No. 20 of 2021 s. 95(2).]