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Local Electoral Act 2001

Conduct of elections and polls - Voting, processing, and counting of votes

88F: What happens if member of local board or community board becomes member of territorial authority

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If you are a member of a local board or community board and you get elected to a territorial authority, this rule applies to you. You must be treated as having left your job as a member of the local board or community board. This happens if you are declared elected as a member of the territorial authority and you do not lose your new job because of a recount under section 92 or a petition under section 93.

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Voting, processing, and counting of votes

88FWhat happens if member of local board or community board becomes member of territorial authority

  1. This section applies if, at any election other than an election to which section 88A applies, a person who is a member of a local board or community board constituted in respect of part of a district of a territorial authority is declared to be elected as a member of that territorial authority (and that person is not deprived of his or her office as a member of that territorial authority by a recount under section 92 or a petition under section 93).

  2. If this section applies, the person declared to be elected as a member of the territorial authority must be treated as having vacated office as a member of the local board or community board.

Notes
  • Section 88F: inserted, on , by section 33 of the Local Electoral Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 85).
  • Section 88F heading: amended, on , by section 76 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
  • Section 88F(1): amended, on , by section 76 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
  • Section 88F(2): amended, on , by section 76 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).