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Electoral Act 1993

Registration of electors - Registration

86C: Enrolment information received from prison manager treated as application for registration

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"Prisoners' info is used to sign them up to vote"

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If you are in prison, the Electoral Commission gets some information about you from the prison manager. They use this information as if you had applied to be on the electoral roll. This means they treat the information they get as a request from you to be registered as an elector of an electoral district. They also use the information to know if you want to be on the Maori electoral roll.

If you have a preference to be on the Maori electoral roll, the Electoral Commission treats this as a request from you to be registered as an elector of a Maori electoral district. This rule is more important than some other rules about registering to vote, like the ones in section 83(1) to (4). The Electoral Commission follows this rule when they get information about you from the prison manager.

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Part 5Registration of electors
Registration

86CEnrolment information received from prison manager treated as application for registration

  1. The Electoral Commission must, for the purposes of this Act, treat—

  2. the receipt of a person’s details referred to in section 86B(1)(a) as an application by the person to register as an elector of an electoral district; and
    1. the receipt of a person’s preference referred to in section 86B(1)(b) to be enrolled on the Maori electoral roll as a request by the person to be registered as an elector of a Maori electoral district.

      1. This section overrides section 83(1) to (4).

      Notes
      • Section 86C: inserted, on , by section 7 of the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 26).