New Zealand Legislation: Acts

6 Form of voting paper

• (1) The voting paper must have the following heading:

  “Referendum on the Compulsory Retirement Savings Scheme”.

  (2) The voting paper must have the following explanatory note:

  “Explanation

  “Use this voting paper to have your say on the proposed compulsory retirement savings scheme. A summary of the scheme is with this voting paper. A full description is in the [title of Government publication describing the proposed compulsory retirement savings scheme] dated [date]. The Government will introduce legislation to set up the scheme if more people voting at the referendum vote ‘yes’ than vote ‘no’.”.

  (3) The voting paper must—

  • (a) Set out the question; and

  • (b) Set out the following answers:

    “YES I support the proposed compulsory retirement savings scheme

    “NO I do not support the proposed compulsory retirement savings scheme”; and

  • (c) Set out instructions on how to vote and how to return the voting paper; and

  • (d) Provide a space for the voter to indicate the answer for which he or she wishes to vote; and

  • (e) Set out the following numbers:

    • (i) The elector's roll identifier number and the elector's electorate code; and

    • (ii) The voting paper's number—

    in accordance with the following rules:

    • (iii) An elector's roll identifier number must be unique to that elector; and

    • (iv) A voting paper's number must be unique to that voting paper; and

    • (v) Voting paper numbers must be in a consecutive sequence that starts at 1; and

  • (f) Be in the prescribed form.

  (4) When printed, the voting paper must set out, in place of the italicised words and square brackets in subsection (2), the title and date of the Government publication describing the proposed compulsory retirement savings scheme.