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Electoral Act 1993

Registration of electors - Electoral rolls

108: Habitation indexes

You could also call this:

"Lists of people who live in an area and are on the electoral roll"

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The Electoral Commission can make a list of people who live in a certain area, called a habitation index. You will be on this list if you live in that area and are on the electoral roll. The list will show your name and the number that is given to you on the electoral roll.

The Electoral Commission must make a new habitation index for an area as soon as they can after they print the main electoral roll for that area. This means you will be able to find your name on the list with your electoral roll number.

The Electoral Commission is in charge of making these lists, which are used to keep track of who lives where and who is on the electoral roll, you can find more information about the laws that govern this on the Electoral (Administration) Amendment Act 2011 website.

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Part 5Registration of electors
Electoral rolls

108Habitation indexes

  1. The Electoral Commission—

  2. may from time to time compile in respect of any electoral district a habitation index—
    1. listing, in accordance with their residential addresses, the electors who reside in that electoral district; and
      1. showing, against the name of each elector, the number of the elector on the main roll, or, as the case may be, on any supplementary roll for that electoral district; and
      2. shall, as soon as practicable after the printing of a main roll for an electoral district, compile a habitation index under paragraph (a) in respect of that district.

        Notes
        • Section 108: amended, on , by section 52(17)(q) of the Electoral (Administration) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 57).