Intro
The owners and occupiers register (register), is maintained by a local government’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The register is required to include all people who have claimed a right to vote in the local government district under section 4.30 of the Local Government Act 1995 (LG Act), whether the claim is accepted or rejected. Section 4.30 provides (excerpt only):
A person is eligible to be enrolled to vote at elections for a district or ward (the electorate) if the person —
As such, a person who is enrolled to vote in a State or Federal election outside a district or ward, but who owns or occupies a rateable property in a local government district or ward, may claim eligibility and be enrolled to vote in elections for that district or ward. However, there are additional requirements to be considered when assessing an enrolment claim, including requirements under the Local Government (Elections) Regulations 1997 (Election Regulations).
These guidelines aim to help local governments understand the various requirements in the LG Act and Election Regulations for enrolment eligibility claims.
When using these guidelines, local governments should be aware of section 4.32(5) of the LG Act that enables the CEO to make any inquiries needed to make a decision on a claim. As such, a CEO must ensure they are satisfied that a claimant has a genuine claim based upon the evidence provided.
They should also be aware that all references to a CEO in these guidelines include a delegate if the relevant power or duty has been delegated by the CEO to that person under section 5.44 (CEO may delegate powers) of the LG Act.
It is important to note that this document does not constitute legal advice and has been prepared to assist CEOs in the performance of their duties. Accordingly, if in doubt, local governments may seek legal advice and should always refer to the relevant provisions of the LG Act and Election Regulations.
These guidelines includes requirements of the LG Act and the Election Regulations following the commencement of relevant provisions in the Local Government Amendment Act 2023, Local Government Amendment Act 2024 and the making of the Local Government Regulations Amendment Regulations (No.3) 2023 and Local Government Regulations Amendment Regulations (No.2) 2025.
Section 4.30 of the LG Act allows 2 types of claims — a claim of ownership or a claim of occupation. This is supplemented by section 4.31 of the LG Act which covers various ownership or occupation scenarios; including where more than 2 people (including body corporates) own or occupy the property.
Eligibility to vote as an owner or occupier, relies generally on 3 things:
Electors can make enrolment eligibility claims by using the forms enclosed in these guidelines, which have been approved by DLGSC's Director General to be the forms for enrolment eligibility claims and nominations. These can be found at appendix 1. Section 74 of the Interpretation Act 1984 provides that deviations from the form which do not materially affect its substance or are likely to mislead a person a
These guidelines address potential situations that could arise when assessing enrolment eligibility claims. These are (see section 2.5 for details):
Claims of ownership are generally straightforward although they do not necessarily always reflect what is shown on the certificate of title for the relevant property. This is because the definition of 'owner' in the LG Act applies.
When determining eligibility, the term 'owner' means1:
Disputes about the ownership of a property should primarily rely on what is registered on the certificate of title, subject to any lease, contract or other legal instrument that otherwise evidences the person has an applicable interest in the land.
The LG Act and the Election Regulations impose a series of requirements and tests necessary to determine occupier claims. To make a claim of occupation, the claimant must have and be able to evidence a written lease, tenancy agreement or other legal instrument, such as a licence to occupy to evidence a claim of a right of occupation to rateable property. They must have held a right of occupation for 12 months ending on the day before the claim is made and have a right of occupation for a period of three months beginning on day on which the claim is made.
The date of a claim is the date the claim is received by the local government (not the date the claim declaration form was signed by the claimant). The date a claim is received must be accurately recorded to enable proper and accurate processing of the claim.
The Election Regulations set out a series of requirements for a person to be enrolled as an occupier including that they must:
CEO’s are responsible for ensuring that owner and occupier claimants have an actual entitlement to be enrolled, as elector eligibility underpins free and fair elections.
In some circumstances many occupiers inhabit a rateable property. For example, large office towers are occupied by many different companies and organisations, this may mean that a single office tower may result in claim from each occupying entity. Similarly apartment buildings contain multiple residences.
The nature of the right to enrol as an occupier may be further complicated by the process of sub leasing, and chains of subleases.
The eligibility requirements for occupation are covered further in Part 3 of these guidelines. To further assist local governments, an occupation claim assessment checklist is included at appendix 2 of these guidelines which may be adapted to suit your local government (see Appendix 2, of the PDF version of this guide).
The LG Act provides for up to two people that own a property to each claim eligibility . However, a property may alternatively be co-owned or co-occupied by a group of people. Section 4.31(1E) and (1F) of the LG Act states that:
(1E) If more than 2 people own rateable property in conjunction with each other, the owners are whichever 2 of those people who, being eligible under section 4.30(1)(a), are nominated as owners by all or a majority of those people.
(1F) If more than 2 people occupy rateable property in conjunction with each other, the occupiers are whichever 2 of those people who, being eligible under section 4.30(1)(a), are nominated as occupiers by all or a majority of those people.
It is also possible for more than one body corporate, or a combination of bodies corporate or natural people to co-own or co-occupy a property, and claims of this nature are occasionally made.
Regardless of the number of co-owners or co-occupier, no more than two people can be nominated. The table below outlines nomination arrangements in specified situations:
Table 1 — Nominees permitted based upon ownership/occupation situation
To make this clear, sections 4.31(1GB) – (1GE) and examples at the end of section 4.31 were inserted by the Local Government Amendment Act 2024.
“(1G) If a body corporate owns or occupies rateable property, the owners or occupiers are 2 people each of whom —
(1GA) In subsection (1G)(a) —
officer, in relation to a body corporate, means any of the following —
The following are examples of a body corporate:
Table 2 — Examples of what is a body corporate
Where in doubt as to if a nominating body corporate is indeed a body corporate it may be prudent to seek legal advice.
Clause 12 of Schedule 9.3 to the LG Act provided for the continuous enrolment of persons who were enrolled under the Local Government Act 1960 (1960 Act) which did not necessarily require a person to hold Australian citizenship to be enrolled to vote. Section 35 of the 1960 Act allowed for natural born or naturalized British subjects ordinarily residing in the state to vote.
Clause 12 of Schedule 9.3 was repealed by the Local Government Amendment Act 2024, persons who are enrolled relying on this provision can remain enrolled until their enrolment would have otherwise ended, however no new or renewed enrolments may be made relying on this provision.
The CEO decision on an enrolment eligibility claim must be based on suitable evidence provided or gathered to confirm the person is eligible for enrolment. The checklist below provides guidance on what should be evidenced for each enrolment claim:
Table 4 — Checks to be conducted against claims
The first step with all claims should be to verify that the claimant (or corporate nominee) is enrolled to vote for either:
Checks can be conducted through either electoral commission websites through the “check my enrolment” feature, using information providing by the claimant in their eligibility claim form. If you are experiencing difficulties verifying a claimant, or the claimant indicates they are a silent elector, contact the Western Australia Electoral Commission via waec@waec.wa.gov.au to verify enrolment. Silent elector status can only be claimed by a person if they are registered as a silent elector on the state or Commonwealth electoral rolls.
In rejecting claims on this basis, the following reasons as applicable, may be provided on the form that rejects the claim:
Table 5 — Rejecting claim because of state or federal enrolment:
The second step is to verify the property specified in the claim is rateable.
Table 6 — Rejecting claim because of rateability and ownership
The property you have claimed for eligibility to vote is not a rateable property.
To be eligible to be enrolled, section 4.30(1)(b) of the Local Government Act 1995 requires that you (or the body corporate that nominates you) own or occupy rateable property in the [name of local government].
The property that you have claimed for eligibility to vote is not within the [insert name of local government]. It is in the boundaries of the [insert name of local government].
To be eligible to be enrolled, section 4.30(1)(b) of the Local Government Act 1995 requires that you (or the body corporate that nominates you) own or occupy rateable property within the [insert name of local government].
You (or the body corporate that has nominated you) do not own the property that you have claimed for eligibility to vote.
Where a body corporate makes an enrolment eligibility claim, the CEO must be satisfied the body corporate exists and is an eligible body corporate. In doing so, the local government should verify that the body corporate has a current registration through the registration authority (for example, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) or the Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DEMIRS)). This can be done online via the relevant websites.
For body corporates which are not companies under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) the local government will need to consider if the nominator is the equivalent of these positions for that body corporate. The nominator may also nominate themselves.
For all claims made after 1 February 2025, the nominee of a body corporate must be an officer or employee of that body corporate. The nominator may also nominate themselves, but only if they are the only officer of the body corporate.
The CEO may seek information from the claimant or the entity the corporate body is registered by (e.g. ASIC) to confirm the claimant is respectively an employee or an officer of the corporate body.
Finally, check if the body corporate already has two nominees accepted and not expired in the owners and occupiers register. This is not a basis for rejection; however, the body corporate should confirm in writing its withdrawal of a previous nomination before the CEO can determine any claim for new nominees.
In refusing claims due to a failure to satisfy this check, the following reasons should be provided:
To be eligible to be enrolled as a nominee of a body corporate under section 4.31(1G) of the Local Government Act 1995. you must be nominated by a body corporate that owns or occupies property in the [insert name of local government].
Based on the evidence provided, the body corporate that has nominated you is not registered with [insert relevant authority] and is unable to nominate you to vote on its behalf.
The entity that has nominated you is not a body corporate as it is a [insert relevant details].
e.g. A trust, which is a financial relationship between a trustee and beneficiary. A sole trader, which is a natural person with an Australian Business Number. A partnership, which is a legal relationship between two or more people.
To be eligible to be enrolled as a nominee of a body corporate under section 4.31(1G) of the Local Government Act 1995, you must be nominated by a body corporate that owns or occupies property in the [local government district/ward].
You have not provided a nomination from the body corporate that owns/occupies the property at [insert address].
You have not provided a nomination signed by an officer of the body corporate. An officer of the body corporate must be a director, the CEO or company secretary or equivalent role.
You are not an officer or employee of the body corporate which has nominated you.
To be eligible to be enrolled as a nominee of a body corporate under section 4.31(1G) of the Local Government Act 1995, you must be an officer or employee of the body corporate which owns or occupies property in the [local government district/ward].
Where more than two persons (or bodies corporate) co-own or co-occupy a property, they may nominate two of the co-owners or co-occupiers to vote on their collective behalf. In doing so, they should provide a completed form 2B or other document that evidences compliance with the requirements of the regulations regarding this nomination requirement.
Where a body corporate owns a property with other bodies corporate or natural persons, the nominees of the body corporate under 4.31(1G) are to be considered as being the owners and occupiers for the purposes of making the nominations for section 4.31(1E)&(1F).
Occasionally, there may be applications to remove and replace nominees. Where this arises, the CEO should rely on the process in section 4.35(1)(c) of the LG Act to provide 28 days’ notice of removal. This is discussed further in Part 4.
If a claimant cannot satisfy the majority nomination requirement, the following reason should be provided:
Table 7 — Rejecting claim because of co-owner/co-occupier nomination
o be eligible to be enrolled as a nominee of a group of more than two owners/occupiers* under section 4.31(1E)/(1F)* of the Local Government Act 1995, you must be nominated by a majority of the owners/occupiers*.
You have not provided a nomination from a majority of the joint owners/occupiers* of the property.
*Delete what is not relevant
Unlike ownership of rateable property, which is often a clear outcome with only two voters for the owners of a property, there can be many occupation claims from a single property. Large commercial shopping centres or office buildings may give rise to multiple “separate and distinguishable portions” of a rateable property for which each occupier could claim eligibility for up to two electors.
The CEO must establish the following to confirm that a genuine right of occupation that is sufficient to establish a right to be eligible as an elector under the LG Act.
A claim must evidence the following:
1. The claimant has a lease, tenancy agreement or other legal instrument to evidence a claim of a right of occupation to rateable property.
Section 4.31(1C) of the LG Act states that a person can only be considered to have a right of occupation if the person has a right of continuous occupation under a lease, tenancy agreement or other legal instrument. A verbal arrangement does meet this test. At a minimum, a written agreement signed by the lessor and lessee setting out the terms of occupancy must be provided.
2. The claimant is the lessee.
To claim a right of occupation, the individual or body corporate claimant must be the person listed on the legal instrument. If they are not, a deed of novation or assignment may evidence they are the person with the right of occupation. If the legal instrument does not list the claimant as lessee, they are not the person holding the right of occupation.
3. The lease is with the owner or former owner or tenant who had the right to sublet.
It is also reasonable to expect that any legal agreement provided is between the owner of the rateable property and the occupier claimant. Further checks are required if an agreement is between persons who are not the owner and a claiming occupier. If the lessor cannot evidence a legal instrument providing them with the power to lease the land, this may mean a valid right of occupation does not exist.
Likewise, where the claimant is a sublessee, evidence should be obtained to confirm the head lease provides the lessor with the ability to sublease the property to the claimant.
4. The claim is not disqualified by the regulations made under section 4.31(1CA).
Section 4.31(1CA) allows regulations to be made that provide that a person is not regarded as occupying rateable property unless they meet prescribed requirements.
These prescribed requirements are set out in regulation 10A of the Election Regulations. In summary terms these are:
a. The property or portion of the property is not a residence (r10A(2)(a)).
A person who occupies a residence should be enrolled as a resident, not as an owner and occupier. This is also to prevent people seeking to rent out rooms of their residential property to obtain additional voting rights.
Subregulation (3) provides that a property or portion thereof is a residence or includes a residence.
Subregulation (4) additionally provides that a property is considered a residence if a person is enrolled on the residence roll for that property.
A residence is a place in which a person can live. When determining if a property is a residence consideration may be given to:
b. The person has a right of quiet enjoyment to 10m2 of floor area which is not excluded floor area (r10(2)(b).
There are two aspects of this requirement. The first is the right of quiet enjoyment.
The right of quiet enjoyment is a term used in the leasing of property that conveys the right to a tenant to have occupancy of the property without unreasonable interference from their landlord or another tenant. This is intended to reflect that an enrolled occupier should have an exclusive right to their property. In general, a clause granting the lessee the right of quiet enjoyment is present in a lease. If this clause is not present, but ‘exclusive occupancy’ is granted this achieves the same intent.
The second component is the 10m2 of floor area leased. Generally, a lease will specify the square meterage of area that has been let. If not, the CEO should seek information from the applicant regarding this. There are also a series of exclusions to what should count towards the square meterage requirement. These are:
While this may appear to be a significant number of exclusions, these exclusions will only need assessment where the lease provided is for a very small area. If it is clear and obvious that there are more than 10m2 of valid floor area leased. It is generally anticipated most cafes, bars, retail shops and company offices would meet these requirements. As would many industrial and commercial complexes.
Where this needs scrutiny is for the renting of a single office or for very small shops or food businesses. In this instance the local government may want to examine any plans provided in the lease or held in the local government’s property records, such as the approved building permit plans.
The property or portion of the property can be secured from intruders (r10(2)(c)).
The requirement that the property can be secured from intruders is intended to ensure that occupier claims for properties are for places with ‘four walls, a roof and lockable door’. This reflects a basic expectation that occupiers on the owners and occupiers roll do have a secured premises.
Specifically, this means that arrangements such as renting a desk would be unlikely to meet this requirement unless the desk was in a lockable office, which the person exclusively occupied, which was at least 10m2 overall and the minimum amount of rent was being paid.
Subregulation (7) clarifies that any outdoor space or area to which the right of quiet enjoyment does not extend does not need to be secured against intruders.
Evidence of this can be demonstrated through an examination of the floor plan, the building plans kept by the local government or photography evidencing the ability to secure the property.
d. The relevant person is using the property to genuinely carry on their business (r10(2)(d)).
This requirement captures the overall intent of the revised non-resident occupier franchise, that it is for people who carry on their business within the local government. The regulation captures both the current carry on of the business, or the intent to do so to capture where for example building fit out is underway to enable the imminent conduct of the business.
This requirement is ultimately one of judgement for the local government where consideration may want to be given to the actual or permitted uses of the property under the lease and the law.
While a local government may initially accept a claim believing the claim that the business is genuinely carried on the from property, where it becomes apparent that this is not occurring, the CEO is obligated under section 4.35 to decide if eligibility of the claim has ended.
Election Regulation 12D extends these requirements to also apply to the lease(s) which is relied upon to meet the requirement for 12 months tenure prior to the date of claim.
5. The claim is for a separate building or portion of a building or some other separate and distinguishable portion of the rateable property which meets the requirements of the regulations.
Section 4.31(1D) of the LG Act provides that a reference to occupation includes a separate building or portion of a building or some other separate and distinguishable portion of the rateable property.
This provides grounds to at least expect a lease of a separate space. As a result, the local government should examine the leased area to confirm it is for a space that could be reasonably distinguished from the rest of the rateable property, such as:
This requirement should be considered in conjunction with the Election Regulations regarding the requirements to occupy property.
Section 4.32(3) of the LG Act requires a claimant to have:
This is intended to end the practice of short-term leasing arrangements to stand for election or vote.
If the right of occupation is dated after the date of the claim or there is a break in the leases, the claim further information should be sought as to if the claimant meet the prescribed right of occupation requirements.
A local government should also consider if the lease allows for termination without cause with less than three months’ notice, such as during a holding over period. Clauses of this nature may not provide sufficient security of tenure.
The minimum amounts of rent are prescribed in Election Regulations 12C and are:
The minimum amount of rent to be paid is the lower of the two amounts. This means for example if a person rents 20m2 in the City of Perth, they need to be paying at least $2,000 per annum in rent following the formula:
Formula: Total rent per annum / floor area = rate per m2
Example: $2000 / 20m2 = $100 per m2
Likewise, if the per metre squared rate is known, the formula would be:
Rate per m2 per annum x floor are = annual rent
The flat minimum rate has been set to reduce the burden of local governments to conduct these calculations. For example, if they are paying $12,000 per annum then no calculation would be needed.
The minimum rates of rent have been set as round numbers for the ease of local governments in calculating the minimum rent requirements. Regulation 12C also details what to do if the claim relates to multiple properties.
Subregulation (8) provides that minimum rental requirements do not apply to registered charities, recognising they often lease property at a ‘peppercorn’ rate.
In the event a claimant is unable to demonstrate these matters, the following reasons for refusal should be provided:
Table 8 — Rejecting claim because of right of occupation
The lease(s) and other materials you have provided:*
Select either:
Based on the evidence provided, **you/the body corporate that has nominated you do/does not have a right of occupation of a separate or distinguishable portion of rateable property, under a lease, tenancy agreement or other legal instrument** for at least three months, in the [insert name of local government].
This is required by sections 4.30(1)(b), 4.31(1C), 4.31(1D) and 4.32(2) of the Local Government Act 1995 and regulation 12B of the Local Government (Elections) Regulations 1997.
**Delete what is not required
Some local governments have historically rejected enrolments because a person is already on the owners and occupiers register or is already nominated for a different body corporate. It does not appear that these represent a valid basis for rejecting enrolment. If this occurs, a local government should update the enrolment of the claimant or nominee to the most recent enrolment.
A person can be the nominee of several bodies’ corporate; however, that person can only receive one vote for the district or in the case of a local government having wards, a ward, as per section 4.66 of the LG Act.
Sections 4.33, 4.35 and 4.43 of the LG Act provide the ways a person is to be removed from the register of non-resident owners and occupiers. As part of their maintenance of the register, local governments should ensure they appropriately maintain their register, from which the electoral roll is drawn, follow the correct processes, and only remove those persons who they have the power to remove. The processes provide certain avenues for a CEO to remove someone without a need to seek submissions for 28 days; however, the submission process may need to be adhered to in some cases.
Section 4.33(1) of the LG Act provides that a person’s enrolment expires when they are enrolled based on their ownership of rateable property and their property is sold. Local governments regularly receive details of land sales, consistent with section 9.68 of the LG Act.
CEOs are responsible for ensuring that where advice of change of ownership is received, the owners and occupiers register is checked to ensure that the owner’s claim is recorded as expired because of the sale / transfer of ownership.
If only one owner of a group of multiple owners changes, then:
If one person in a pair of owners changes, only the person that no longer has ownership should be removed.
Section 4.33 of the LG Act provides enrolments based upon occupation to expire when a person no longer occupies the property to which their claim relates.
CEOs that become aware that a business has moved or closed may remove that person from the register. Local governments should however ensure they verify that the lease has ended. Just because a shop has closed does not mean the legal tenure over the property has concluded.
Section 4.33 of the LG Act provides for the expiration of enrolments when a person is enrolled based on the occupation of rateable property. The table below outlines when claims expire based on when they were originally made.
Table 9 — Expiration of occupier claims
If accepted for enrolment, a claimant can always vote in two ordinary elections before expiry.
Section 4.35(1)(a) of the LG Act allows an elector to advise the CEO that they are no longer eligible to be enrolled. If this occurs, the CEO is required under s.4.35(7) to record the eligibility claim status in the owner and occupier register.
LG Act section 4.35(1)(b) the CEO to decide and update the status of an eligibility claim for a person who has passed away. A CEO may be notified of this when property ownership changes to the executor of an estate, by the family of the deceased person or by the Electoral Commission. Local governments can also check death notices, or Cemetery Board websites to proactively maintain the accuracy of claim details in the owner and occupier register.
Section 4.43(1) of the LG Act requires the Returning Officer (RO) to delete the name of any person who is also on the residents roll from the owners and occupiers register and the owners and occupiers roll produced from the register for that ward (or if there are no wards, that district).
For elections where the CEO is not the RO, such as when an RO is appointed by the Electoral Commissioner, section 4.43(3a) of the LG Act permits the RO to direct the CEO to make the changes required by section 4.43(1).
In these instances, the CEO may give notice to the elector setting out the reasons they believe they are no longer eligible. The notice must be provided in Elections Regulations Form 6, setting out the reasons they believe the person is no longer eligible and detail the evidence they are relying on in forming their view. The CEO must also provide the claimant an Elections Regulations Form 7, to enable the claimant to appeal to the Electoral Commissioner if they choose.
The CEO must provide that elector 28 days to provide a submission in response. This submission may contest the CEO’s evidence or provide information that resolves the eligibility question. The elector may also appeal to the Electoral Commissioner.
Regulation 11 of the Election Regulations allows a body corporate or group of co-owner/co-occupiers to withdraw their nomination of an elector. While there is no express requirement to provide notice to the elector prior to withdrawal of the nomination, the CEO may wish to consider doing so. This is due to there being instances where nomination withdrawals have been contested because of business or family disputes.
For consistency with section 4.35(2) of the LG Act, and to prevent arbitrary withdrawals, the CEO may provide Form 6, and a 28 days’ notice period, even though not required to do so.
There is a chance that when providing 28 days’ notice, issues could arise for new nominees if their application is lodged less than 28 days before the CEO must compile the roll for an election. In these instances, a CEO could choose to provide a shorter notice period, or a body corporate could seek to have their existing electors write to the CEO to advise they are no longer nominated by the company for the purposes of section 4.35(1)(a), allowing for their instant removal.
The following are other relevant provisions of the LG Act and Election Regs to keep in mind in managing the register and roll.
This section obliges the CEO of a local government to maintain up-to-date records of electors on the register.
This section provides the deadline for the CEO to prepare and certify the electoral roll produced from the owners and occupiers register by the 36th day before election day, being 14 days after the close of roll under section 4.39.
This section reinforces the one vote per person principle. A person cannot appear on the roll for a ward more than once no matter how many properties they may own or occupy. However, if they own or occupy properties across several wards they may be enrolled in several wards, but only once per ward.
This regulation deals with the nomination of a ward under section 4.31(1B)(a) where a property is located in more than one ward. It provides that the nomination of a ward is to be in a written notice signed by the person who makes it and remains in force until the claim expires or is rejected. It likewise provides the ability for a person to withdraw their nomination of a ward and nominate a different ward.
This regulation sets out the requirements for nominations by groups of owners or occupiers and allows the DG to approve forms for this purpose.
This regulation sets out the requirements for nominations by a body corporate and allows the DG to approve forms for this purpose.
This regulation deals with how nominations cease to be effective, including by withdrawal and allows the DG to approve forms for this purpose.
This regulation clarifies that an enrolment claim can rely on several parcels of rateable land.
This regulation sets out what an enrolment eligibility claim must contain and allows the DG to approve forms for this purpose.
This regulation requires a person claiming a right of occupation to present their lease as part of their claim. It additionally requires, if they are subletting to provide evidence that the head lessor consented to or did not need to consent to the lease. Finally, it also requires demonstration of the payment of rent if subject to a minimum payment requirement.
This regulation clarifies the requirements for maintaining a register of owners and occupiers from which the owners and occupiers roll is produced. This regulation requires the register to be updated as soon practicable as decisions are made. It also permits the CEO to amend the register from time-to-time to maintain its accuracy.
This regulation requires Form 5 to be provided with a rejected enrolment eligibility claim and Form 7 to be provided where the CEO provides written reasons for an elector’s removal under section 4.35(3).
This regulation provides for appeals to the Electoral Commission to not specifically require the completion of the relevant form provided the appellant has set out all the relevant information and included a copy of the decision of the CEO with it.
This regulation requires the CEO and local government employees to protect the confidentiality of the date of birth and contact number of claimants and use them solely for the purpose of preparing an electoral roll and only disclose them when otherwise permitted by law.
This regulation requires a local government to retain copies of accepted and rejected enrolment eligibility claim forms for two years from their acceptance or rejection. Copies of the notice of acceptance must be retained until two years after the claim expires and notice of rejection from two years from the day of rejection.
This regulation sets out what must be contained on the electoral roll of the local government, including in respect of non resident owners and occupiers on the roll.
This form is to be completed by the CEO to advise a person of their successful enrolment eligibility claim.
This form is to be completed by the CEO to advise a person of their unsuccessful enrolment eligibility claim. It must include the reasons for the CEO’s refusal of the claim. If the reasons are extensive or require detailed explanation, they can be attached to the form.
This form is completed by a person who has had their enrolment eligibility claim refused to appeal the decision to the Electoral Commissioner. This form must be attached to the Form 4 where the CEO has refused a claim. Regulation 15 does not require the appealing person to use this form if they provide all relevant details to the Electoral Commissioner.
This form is to be used by the CEO when exercising their power under section 4.35 to cancel a person’s enrolment after a 28-day submission period. This form must include the CEO’s reasons for cancelling that person’s enrolment.
This form is completed by a person who has had their enrolment eligibility claim cancelled to appeal the decision to the Electoral Commissioner. This form must be attached to the Form 6 where the CEO has cancelled an enrolment eligibility claim. Regulation 15 does not require the appealing person to use this form if they provide all relevant details to the Electoral Commissioner