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Electoral Act 1993

Registration of electors - Miscellaneous provisions

123: Copies of rolls, etc, for Returning Officer

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"The Electoral Commission gives the Returning Officer the information they need to run elections"

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The Electoral Commission has to give the Returning Officer the information they need. You can think of the Returning Officer as the person in charge of elections in a certain area. The Electoral Commission must give them as many copies as they need of the main roll and supplementary rolls for their area and any other area.

The Electoral Commission also has to give the Returning Officer a copy of the list of people who were removed from the electoral roll after the election was announced, which is referred to in section 98(5). The Electoral Commission can give the Returning Officer any other information that might help identify voters. This can include things like addresses or dates of birth.

Sometimes the Electoral Commission can change the way they give the Returning Officer this information, like using a computer to make it easier to find someone on the electoral roll, even if other parts of the law say they should do it a certain way, like in sections 105 to 107 and 110.

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Part 5Registration of electors
Miscellaneous provisions

123Copies of rolls, etc, for Returning Officer

  1. The Electoral Commission—

  2. must supply to the Returning Officer for an electoral district—
    1. as many copies as the Returning Officer may require of the main roll and supplementary rolls for the district and any other district; and
      1. a copy of the list of post-writ day deletions referred to in section 98(5); and
      2. may supply to the Returning Officer for an electoral district any other information that the Electoral Commission holds that may assist with the identification of electors.

        1. Despite sections 105 to 107 and 110, the Electoral Commission may modify the form or format of any copies of rolls or information supplied under this section if that is necessary to facilitate the use of technology for finding an elector on a roll, or for the scrutiny of the rolls under this Act.

        Notes
        • Section 123: replaced, on , by section 10 of the Electoral Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 2).