New Zealand Legislation: Acts

26 Persons who, at commencement of voting period, are dead or disqualified or removed from roll

• (1) The Chief Registrar must supply the Returning Officer with the roll identifier number of every elector who is on the referendum roll or the supplementary referendum roll but who, at the commencement of the voting period, falls into a category described in subsections (2) to (4).

  (2) The first category is every elector—

  • (a) who is dead; and

  • (b) whose death has been notified to a Registrar—

    • (i) by any Registrar of Births and Deaths; or

    • (ii) by the father, mother, spouse, civil union partner, or de facto partner of the elector or by a sister or brother of the elector; and

  • (c) of whose identity the Registrar is satisfied.

  (3) The second category is every elector who is disqualified from registration as an elector under section 80 of the Electoral Act 1993.

  (4) The third category is every elector whose name has been removed from a roll under—

  • (a) section 95B or section 96 or section 97 of the Electoral Act 1993; or

  • (b) section 20(3).

  (5) The Chief Registrar must supply the roll identifier number—

  • (a) in electronic form; and

  • (b) as soon as practicable after the Chief Registrar ascertains it, and before the end of the voting period.

  (6) The Returning Officer must make a mark on the Returning Officer's copy of the roll, by the elector's name, to indicate that the elector is dead, disqualified, or removed from a roll.

  Compare: 1997 No 13 s 24

  Subsection (2)(b)(ii) was amended, as from 1 January 2002, by section 66 Human Rights Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 96), by substituting the words “spouse, or de facto partner (whether of the same or different sex)” for the words “or spouse”.

  Subsection (2)(b)(ii) was substituted, as from 26 April 2005, by section 7 Relationships (Statutory References) Act 2005 (2005 No 3).