Compulsory Retirement Savings Scheme Referendum Act 1997: repealed, on 2 April 1998, by section 2.
This Act is administered in the Ministry of Justice
Title
1 Short Title and commencement
2 Expiry
3 Interpretation
Part 1Purpose and question
4 Purpose
5 Question
6 Form of voting paper
Part 2Officials
7 Returning Officer
8 Returning Officer may employ or engage persons
9 Chief Registrar of Electors
10 Delegation by Returning Officer or Chief Registrar
11 Provisions applying to delegations
Part 3Rolls of electors
12 Purposes of rolls
Preliminary referendum rolls
13 Preliminary referendum rolls
14 Form of printed preliminary referendum rolls
15 Section 110 of Electoral Act 1993 not to apply to printed preliminary referendum rolls
16 Public inspection of printed preliminary referendum rolls
17 Public use of printed preliminary referendum rolls
18 Objections to registration
Referendum roll and supplementary referendum roll
19 Referendum roll
20 Supplementary referendum roll
21 Form of referendum roll and supplementary referendum roll
22 Supply of copy of rolls to Returning Officer
23 Persons who qualify to register as electors during voting period
24 Persons who, at commencement of voting period, are dead or disqualified or removed from roll
25 Protection of referendum roll and supplementary referendum roll
26 Supply and protection of information used for official publicity campaign
Part 4Conduct of referendum
27 Who may vote
28 Voting period
Dispatching voting papers
29 Meaning of dispatched
30 Period for dispatching voting papers
31 Dispatching voting papers by post
32 Dispatching replacement voting papers by post
33 Dispatching voting papers by fax or dictation
34 Envelopes and information accompanying voting papers
35 Extension of voting period
Marking and returning voting papers
36 Method of voting
37 Return of voting papers to Returning Officer
38 Times for return of voting papers
39 Voting papers returned late
Progressive processing of voting papers
40 Processing of voting papers
41 Informal voting papers
42 Invalid voting papers
43 Protection of secrecy during processing
44 Supervision of processing
Announcing results
45 Procedure after close of voting period
46 Declaration of result of referendum
47 Disposal of voting papers and rolls
Advertising
48 Advertisers to be identified
Part 5Offences
Offences
49 Officials
50 Rolls
51 Official publicity campaign
52 Influencing electors generally
53 Advertisers
54 Voting papers
55 Bribery
56 Interpretation provision for section 55
57 Treating
58 Undue influence
59 Voting
60 Personation
61 Processing
Miscellaneous
62 Property may be stated as being in Returning Officer
Part 6Miscellaneous provisions
63 Validation of irregularities
64 Enactments amended
65 Regulations
Schedule 1Forms
Schedule 2Enactments amended
An Act to provide for the holding, in 1997, of a referendum on a proposal for a compulsory retirement savings scheme
BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows: