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Conservation Act 1987

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26Y: Eligibility to vote

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"Who can vote for the Fish and Game Council"

To vote for members of the Fish and Game Council in your region, you must be a New Zealand resident and have a special licence. This licence lets you hunt game or fish for sports fish in that region. You can get this licence for the season before the election or in the three months before the voting list closes.

You can choose to vote when you buy your licence or at any time before the election, as long as it's not later than one month before. The Fish and Game Council keeps a list of people who want to vote in their elections.

You will be on this list if you say you want to vote when you get your licence or if you tell the Council you want to vote before the election.

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26YEligibility to vote

  1. Every New Zealand resident who holds an adult whole season licence that entitles that person to hunt game or fish for sports fish in a particular region in the season immediately preceding the next election, or in the period of 3 months before the close of the roll for any election, of members of the Fish and Game Council for that region shall be entitled to vote at that election.

  2. A person may choose to participate in any such election either at the time when he or she purchases a licence to hunt or fish or at any subsequent time before, but not later than 1 month before, the next election is held.

  3. For the purposes of this section, each Fish and Game Council shall maintain a register or roll of persons who indicate their wish to vote at an election of members of the Council.

Notes
  • Section 26Y: inserted, on , by section 17 of the Conservation Law Reform Act 1990 (1990 No 31).
  • Section 26Y(1): substituted, on , by section 20 of the Conservation Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 1).