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Referendums Framework Bill

Referendum advertising - Registered promoters

54: Promoters eligible for registration

You could also call this:

"Who can register to promote a referendum in New Zealand"

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To be a registered promoter, you must not be an overseas person. You are an overseas person if you are an individual who lives outside New Zealand and you are not a New Zealand citizen or registered to vote. You can also be an overseas person if you are a company set up outside New Zealand, or if you are an organisation with your main office outside New Zealand.

If you are a promoter, such as a company or a group, you are eligible to register if you are not an overseas person. This means you must be based in New Zealand or be a New Zealand citizen to register as a promoter. You cannot register as a promoter if you are an overseas person, according to the proposed law.

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Part 3Referendum advertising
Registered promoters

54Promoters eligible for registration

  1. A promoter (including a corporation sole, a body corporate, and an unincorporated body) is eligible to be a registered promoter if the promoter is not an overseas person.

  2. In this section, overseas person means—

  3. an individual who—
    1. resides outside New Zealand; and
      1. is not a New Zealand citizen or registered as an elector; or
      2. a body corporate incorporated outside New Zealand; or
        1. an unincorporated body that has its head office or principal base of business outside New Zealand.