✨ Election Procedures Text
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
thirty nor more than sixty days after
the date of such notice), on which day
some person or persons, duly qualified and
registered as aforesaid, shall be elected to fill
up such vacancy during the remainder of the
term of the continuance of such Board, and
no longer.
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Whenever an election of a Trustee or
an Auditor shall be necessary, the Resident
Magistrate shall appoint polling places, and
fix the day on which the voting, if necessary,
shall take place, and shall give not less than
fourteen days' public notice thereof respec-
tively. -
On the day of nomination, to be fixed
by the Resident Magistrate, the Resident
Magistrate shall preside at a meeting, to be
holden at noon, at such place in the town of
Nelson as shall be appointed for that purpose
by him, and shall declare the purpose for
which such meeting is held. -
And if at such meeting there be no
more candidates proposed than the number of
Trustees or Auditors to be returned, the
Resident Magistrate shall declare such candi-
date or candidates to be duly elected, and
shall make his return accordingly. -
In the event of there being more candi-
dates than the number to be elected, the
Resident Magistrate shall call for a show of
hands separately in favour of each candidate,
and after such show of hands shall declare
the person or persons on whom the election
has fallen, and shall return the same accord-
ingly, unless a poll be demanded by one of the
candidates, or by not less than three electors
on his behalf. -
On such demand as aforesaid being
made for a poll, the polling shall be taken on
the day so to be fixed as aforesaid; the voting
to commence at nine o'clock of the said day,
and to close at four o'clock in the afternoon
of the same day. -
The polling shall take place before the
Returning Officer, or his assistant, and the
voting shall be conducted in the manner fol-
lowing, that is to say- -
Every elector may vote for any num-
ber of persons not exceeding the number of
persons then to be chosen, by delivering to
the Returning Officer, or his assistant, a
voting paper, containing the Christian names
and surnames of the persons for whom he
votes, together with their places of abode and
descriptions, and signed with the name of the
elector so voting, and setting forth his own
place of abode and description, and the num-
ber of votes to which he is entitled. -
No inquiry shall be permitted at any
such election as to the right of any person to
vote, except only as follows, that is to say-
The Returning Officer, or his assistant, shall,
if required by any elector, put to any voter,
at the time of his delivering in of his voting
paper and not afterwards, the following ques-
tions, and no others:- -
Are you the person whose name is signed
as (A. B.) to the voting paper now deli-
vered in by you?
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Are you the person whose name appears
as (A. B.) on the roll of persons entitled
to vote under the Nelson Trust Funds
Acts, now in force? -
Have you already voted at the present
election?
And no person required to answer any of the
said questions shall be permitted or qualified
to vote until he shall have answered the same,
the first two affirmatively and the last nega-
tively.
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As soon as conveniently may be after
the voting for the election of members of the
Board of Trustees or Auditors has closed, the
Assistant Returning Officer shall transmit a
certified copy of the same to the Returning
Officer, and such Returning Officer, as soon
as he has received such copies from his several
assistants, shall openly declare and publicly
notify the names of the persons who may
have been duly elected at such election
by a majority of votes to be members
of the Board of Trustees, or to be Audi-
tors, as the case may be; and in the event
of the number of votes being found to
be equal for any two or more candidates,
such Returning Officer shall, by his casting
vote, declare which of the said candidates
shall be elected, but such Returning Officer
shall not vote at such election except in the
case of an equality of votes as aforesaid. -
The name or names of the person or
persons so elected as members of the Board
of Trustees, or as Auditors, shall be published
in the Gazette of each of the said Provinces. -
The voting papers at such election shall
be kept for the space of six calendar months
after such election by the Returing Officer,
who shall permit any elector to inspect the
same upon payment of one shilling. -
In case any election shall be invalid,
the Resident Magistrate shall proceed to a
fresh election, in the manner and subject to
the provisions hereinbefore prescribed. -
In case no Auditor shall be elected as
aforesaid, or if only one such Auditor be
elected, or if any Auditor shall die or become
incapable of acting, or shall decline to act at
the prescribed period, it shall be lawful for
the Governor to appoint an Auditor or
Auditors to act as aforesaid, and such
Auditor or Auditors shall continue to act
until the next election of Auditors. -
All complaints of the undue return of
members of the Board of Trustees or of Audi-
tors, shall be addressed in the form of a peti-
tion to the Governor, stating the grounds of
objection. But no petition shall be noticed,
nor any proceedings had thereon, unless it be
signed by some person who was a candidate at
the election whereof it may be alleged that
an undue return was made, or by a number
of electors, amounting to not less than one-
twentieth of the whole number on the elec-
toral roll; and no such petition shall be
noticed which shall not be delivered to the
Governor within twenty-one days from the
day of election, nor unless a copy thereof
shall have been served upon the party whose
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🏘️ Provincial & Local Government16 February 1864
Election rules, voting procedure, Resident Magistrate, Returning Officer, Trustees, Auditors, Nelson