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Torres Strait Regional Authority (Election of Officeholders) Regulations 2019
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Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
This item is authorised by the following title:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005
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F2019L00484
31 March 2019
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 TSRA Chief Executive Officer
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Part 2—Election of officeholders at the first meeting of the TSRA after its election
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Division 1—Nominations
6 Calling for nominations
7 Making nominations
8 Declaration of nominations
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Division 2—Polling
9 Order of polls
10 Deciding the order of candidates on ballot-papers
11 Ballot-papers
12 Polling procedure
13 Voting
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Division 3—Counting votes
14 Scrutineers
15 Conduct of the count
16 Informal ballot-papers
17 Completion of the count
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Division 4—Other matters
18 Declaration
19 Request for recount
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Part 3—Other elections
20 Election of new Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson
21 Election of new alternate Deputy Chairperson
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Part 4—Miscellaneous
22 Recording result of election
23 Destruction of election materials
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Schedule 1—Method of deciding the election of a candidate
1 Absolute majority of votes
2 Exhausted ballot-papers
3 Votes to be counted
4 Candidate with absolute majority of first preference votes elected
5 Distribution of preferences
6 Deciding which candidate is excluded
7 Deciding which unexcluded candidate is elected
