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Electoral Act 1993

Registration of electors - Electoral rolls

105: Supplementary rolls to be printed

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"Special voting list for people not on the main list is printed for each election"

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The Electoral Commission has to print a special list of people for a district. You are on this list if you are allowed to vote in the district but your name is not on the main list or any other special list for the district. The Electoral Commission decides when to close this special list.

When an election is happening in a district, the Electoral Commission has to print a special list as soon as they can. The list closes on the day the election is announced. You can find more information about elections and voting on the Electoral Commission website or by looking at the Electoral Amendment Act 2017.

This special list is used for the district until a new main list is printed for the district.

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Part 5Registration of electors
Electoral rolls

105Supplementary rolls to be printed

  1. The Electoral Commission must, from time to time, print a supplementary roll for a district that contains a list of all persons whose names do not appear on the main roll or any existing supplementary roll for the district but are lawfully on the electoral roll for the district on a date to be fixed for the closing of that supplementary roll by the Electoral Commission.

  2. However, a supplementary roll must be printed as soon as practicable after the issue of a writ for an election in the relevant district, and the date for the closing of that roll is writ day.

  3. Every supplementary roll printed for a district under this section is a supplementary roll for the district until a new main roll is printed for the district.

Notes
  • Section 105: replaced, on , by section 50 of the Electoral Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 9).