Local Electoral Act 2001

Local elections and polls - Electoral rights

24: Ratepayer electors

You could also call this:

"Voting rights for people who own property in an area but don't live there"

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You can be a ratepayer elector for a region, district, or local board area. You must be a parliamentary elector and live outside that area. You also need to own a property in that area, or be nominated by the property's owner. You can be nominated if the property is owned by one or more people who do not live in that area. However, the same owner cannot nominate different people for different properties in the same area. You can find more information by looking at the Local Electoral Act 2001.

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23: Residential electors, or

"Who can vote in local elections where they live"

24A: Electors of Māori wards, or

"Who can vote in a Māori ward"

Part 2Local elections and polls
Electoral rights

24Ratepayer electors

Every parliamentary elector is qualified as a ratepayer elector of a region, a district, a local board area, or a community if the address for which the person is registered as a parliamentary elector is outside the region, district, local board area, or community, and—
that person is identified in the appropriate valuation roll as the sole ratepayer in respect of a rating unit within the region, district, local board area, or community; or
that person is nominated to be enrolled as a ratepayer elector in respect of a rating unit within the region, district, local board area, or community, owned by 1 or more ratepayers, none of whom is qualified as a residential elector within the region, district, local board area, or community.

Subsection (1) does not authorise the nomination of different persons by the same ratepayer or ratepayers in respect of different properties within the same region, district, local board area, or community.

Compare

1974 No 66 s 101F(2)

Notes

Section 24(1): amended, on 8 August 2014, by section 76 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
Section 24(1)(a): amended, on 8 August 2014, by section 76 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
Section 24(1)(a): amended, on 7 July 2004, by section 8(a) of the Local Electoral Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 62).
Section 24(1)(b): amended, on 8 August 2014, by section 76 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
Section 24(1)(b): amended, on 7 July 2004, by section 8(b)(i) of the Local Electoral Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 62).
Section 24(1)(b): amended, on 7 July 2004, by section 8(b)(ii) of the Local Electoral Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 62).
Section 24(2): amended, on 8 August 2014, by section 76 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).