Electoral Procedures and Forms




  1. Claims for transfer shall be in the form or to the effect following :—

THE CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

Claim for Transfer.

(1) Claimant : [Set out full name and address of claimant.]

(2) Roll on which he is at present entered: [Set out name of roll, thus—
Graduates’ electoral roll, or as the case may be.]

(3) Roll to which he claims to be transferred : [Set out name of roll, thus—
Teachers’ electoral roll, or as the case may be.]

(4) Qualification by virtue whereof he claims to be transferred : [Set out
qualification, thus—Member of School Committee for the School
District of , or as the case may be.]

The claimant hereby claims to be transferred from the first-mentioned
to the secondly-mentioned roll, as above.

Dated at , this day of , 19 .

[Signature of the claimant.]

To the Returning Officer of the Canterbury University College.

  1. Any elector may, by notice under his hand delivered to the Returning
    Officer or posted to him at the College buildings, object to any electoral
    roll on the grounds :—

(1) That any person whose name is on the roll does not possess the
necessary qualification; or

(2) That any person whose name is not on the roll possesses the necessary
qualification, and is entitled to have his name entered thereon.

  1. Forthwith after receipt of any such objection the Returning Officer
    shall inquire into and dispose of the same.

  2. Any person aggrieved by any decision or act of the Returning Officer
    relating to any roll may appeal therefrom to the Council by notice under his
    hand addressed to the Council and delivered at the College not later than
    5 o'clock on the afternoon of the tenth day next before the day on which
    such roll is to be closed for the purpose of an impending election.

  3. Every such appeal shall, before the roll is closed, be heard and determined
    by the Council at a meeting held for the purpose, and the Returning
    Officer shall amend the roll in such manner as the Council, when disposing
    of the appeal, directs.

  4. A casual vacancy shall be deemed to occur on the day on which
    the Council is apprised of the fact.

  5. The Returning Officer shall by advertisement publicly notify in
    respect of each election—

(1) The day on which the election will be held, and the hour at which
the poll will be closed.

(2) The respective classes of electors entitled to vote, and the number
of candidates for whom each such class is entitled to vote.

(3) The total number of candidates to be elected.

(4) The day and hour for the closing of nominations.

(5) The day and hour for the closing of every roll relating to the election.

(6) The first advertisement shall appear not later than the fortieth day
before the day of the election.

  1. (1) Such advertisement shall be published in not less than three
    issues of some newspaper published or circulating in the Provincial District
    of Canterbury.

(2) An interval of not less than two days shall elapse between each such
issue and the next, and the last issue shall appear not later than the twenty-
eighth day next preceding the day on which the election is to be held.

  1. Every candidate shall be nominated in writing by one or more electors
    entitled to vote for his election.

  2. Each such elector may nominate any number of candidates not
    exceeding the number to be elected by the electors belonging to the same
    class as the nominating elector.

  3. Every nomination-paper shall be in the form or to the effect
    following :—

A.B., being an elector duly entered on the parliamentary [or, as the case
may be, graduates’, teachers’, or School Committees'] electoral roll hereby
nominates [Set out full name and address of each candidate the elector wishes
to nominate] as a candidate(s) for election to the Council by the electors on
the aforesaid roll, at the election to be held on the day of , 19 .

Dated at , this day of , 19 .

[Signature of the nominator.]

Candidate’s consent to be subscribed at foot of nomination-paper.

I hereby consent to my nomination.

[Signature of the candidate nominated.]



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