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Electoral Amendment (Legislative Council Ballot Papers) Bill 2010
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Electoral Act 2004 to provide for
equitable and consistent arrangements for independent candidates, with respect to
the Ballot Papers, in Legislative Council elections commensurate with those
arrangements presently in place for a candidate of a registered political party in
Legislative Council elections.
The Bill will achieve those objectives by:
- Ensuring that a candidate in a Legislative Council election, who is not the
endorsed candidate of a registered Party, states in his or her nomination
whether or not they want the word "independent" to appear on the ballot paper
under their name;
- Ensuring that if a person does state that he or she wants the word
"independent" to appear on the ballot paper under his or her name, then the
word "independent" is to appear on the ballot paper immediately under the
name of that candidate.
- Not applying this amendment to a Legislative Council election where a writ
for the holding of that election has been issued before the commencement of
this amendment.