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Local Electoral Act 2001

Local elections and polls - Electoral rights

24E: Voting rights at triennial general election of regional council

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"Voting for your Māori representative on a regional council"

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You can vote for the member who will represent your Māori constituency at a regional council election. You are only allowed to vote for the member of your own constituency, not for members of other constituencies. Only people who are electors of a Māori constituency can vote for the member who will represent that constituency.

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Part 2Local elections and polls
Electoral rights

24EVoting rights at triennial general election of regional council

  1. A person who, under section 24D, is an elector of a Māori constituency of a regional council is, at a triennial general election,—

  2. entitled to vote at the election of the member or members who will represent that constituency; but
    1. not entitled to vote at the election of the member or members who will represent any other constituency of the regional council.

      1. No other person is entitled, at a triennial general election, to vote at the election of the member or members who will represent that Māori constituency of that regional council.

      Compare
      • 2001 No 1 (L) s 11
      Notes
      • Section 24E: inserted, on , by section 7 of the Local Electoral Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 85).