New Zealand Legislation: Acts

27 Protection of referendum roll and supplementary referendum roll

• (1) The referendum roll and the supplementary referendum roll must not be printed or made available for purchase or public inspection in any form.

  (2) Every person who has a copy of the referendum roll or the supplementary referendum roll must, as soon as practicable after the declaration of the result of the referendum under section 49,—

  • (a) erase from any electronic storage medium held by that person, and delete from any electronic system used by that person, any copy of the whole or any part of the referendum roll and the supplementary referendum roll and any mark made under any of sections 26(6), 34(3)(b), 35(5), or 42(2)(b); and

  • (b) make a declaration to the Chief Registrar in the prescribed form that he or she has complied with paragraph (a).

  (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the Returning Officer acting under section 50(1)(b) or to the Clerk of the House acting under section 50(2).

  Compare: 1997 No 13 s 25