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, 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, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall not publish, under subsection (1), notice of the receipt of that proposal.