New Zealand Legislation: Acts

9 Returning Officer may employ or engage persons

• (1) The Returning Officer may employ or engage such persons as the Returning Officer considers are required for the purposes of a referendum.

  (2) A person engaged under subsection (1) may employ or engage such persons as the person considers are required for the purposes of the referendum.

  (3) Every person employed or engaged under subsection (1) or subsection (2)—

  • (a) is under the direction of the Returning Officer; and

  • (b) must, as the person's first duty, make a declaration in form 1 before the Returning Officer, a Justice of the Peace, or a solicitor.

  Compare: 1997 No 13 s 8