New Zealand Gazette – 1997 – No. 145

Page 3353

✨ Dairy Board Election Rules



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5.2 The Secretary will send to each Co-operative Company on the Roll of Electors
(“roll”) a voting paper as set out in Form No 2 attached to these Rules.

5.3 The name of each Voting Representative shall be inserted following the name of
the relevant Co-operative Company in the New Zealand Electing Group.

5.4 The roll shall (subject to the provisions of Clause 5.5) be closed on the first
Wednesday in the month of May in each year and shall thereupon be available for
inspection for a period of 5 working days at the office of the Secretary during
ordinary office hours.

5.5 Any person may by notice in writing to the Secretary at any time during the said
period of 5 working days object that the name or voting entitlement of any Co-
operative Company is incorrectly set out or is wrongly inserted in or omitted from
the roll, and the Secretary, after making such inquiries as he or she thinks fit, may
during the said period of 5 working days or within 3 working days thereafter alter
the roll accordingly, and the decision of the Secretary as to any such objection
shall be final.

5.6 Any Co-operative Company whose name is added to the roll pursuant to Clause
5.5 hereof may at any time thereafter appoint a Voting Representative in manner
hereinafter provided, and the name of such Voting Representative shall be inserted
in the roll accordingly.

  1. VOTING REPRESENTATIVE

6.1 Every Co-operative Company in the New Zealand Electing Group may appoint a
Voting Representative to vote on the company’s behalf in accordance with its
voting entitlement with power also to nominate a candidate on its behalf in an
election of a Director to represent the New Zealand Electing Group.

6.2 The Voting Representative of every Co-operative Company shall be appointed by
instrument in accordance with its constitution and the Companies Act 1993.

6.3 Every such instrument of appointment shall be delivered or forwarded by post
addressed to the Secretary who shall cause particulars of the person set out in the
instrument to be entered on the roll in accordance with clause 5.3.

6.4 The decision of the Secretary as to the validity of any instrument of appointment
shall be final, and no election shall be affected by reason that any person
appearing on the roll as authorised to vote on behalf of any Co-operative
Company is not in fact so authorised.



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