New Zealand Legislation: Acts

7 Gazetting of notice of proposal for indicative referendum petition

• (1) The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall, as soon as practicable after receiving a proposal that complies with section 6 of this Act, publish in the Gazette, and in such newspapers as he or she considers necessary, notice of the receipt of that proposal.

  (2) The notice—

  • (a) Shall include the wording of the question proposed to be put to voters in the indicative referendum and shall call for comments on that wording; and

  • (b) Shall require any person who wishes to make comments on the wording to give 3 written copies of those comments to the Clerk of the House of Representatives not later than 5 pm on a specified date (which date, being a date not earlier than the 28th day after the publication of the notice in the Gazette, shall be determined by the Clerk of the House of Representatives).

  (3) Where a proposal relates to an indicative referendum petition that would contravene section 4 of this Act, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall not publish, under subsection (1) of this section, notice of the receipt of that proposal.