Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

PRODUCERS COMMITTEES (POLLING) REGULATIONS 1990 - REG 17

17 .         Procedure where a postal ballot is held

        (1)         Where the Commission does not convene a meeting for the purposes of conducting a poll the Commission shall conduct a postal ballot.

        (2)         The question or questions to be submitted to the persons voting in the ballot shall be approved by the Commission.

        (3)         The Commission shall give not less than 21 days’ notice of the postal ballot by notice published in a newspaper circulating in the area in which the producers’ committee is to be established or in which the producers’ committee is operating at the date of the poll.

        (4)         If not later than 18 days before the day that a postal ballot is to be held — 

            (a)         an argument in favour of the question to be submitted to the producers is submitted to the Commission; or

            (b)         an argument against the question to be submitted to the producers is submitted to the Commission,

                the Commission shall cause the argument to be printed for circulation under regulation 18 but only one such argument for and one such argument against the question shall be printed by the Commission.

        [Regulation 17 amended in Gazette 13 Feb 2001 p. 871.]