Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) This
section applies to an election in a region and not to an election in a
district.
(2) The returning
officer shall attend at the place of declaration of nominations for the period
of one hour immediately prior to the hour of nomination.
(3) At the hour of
nomination the returning officer shall publicly produce all nomination papers
received by him under section 81 or 81A(5)(b) between the issue of the
writ and the hour of nomination, and declare the names, occupations, and
residences of all candidates nominated.
(4) If there are not
more candidates for election than the relevant number the returning officer
shall declare that candidate or those candidates, as the case may be, duly
elected.
(5) If there are more
candidates for election than the relevant number and they comprise or include
2 or more groups the order of the groups as they shall be placed on the ballot
papers shall be determined as follows —
(a) the
returning officer shall, at the place of declaration of nominations,
immediately after the close of nominations and before all persons then
present, make out in respect of each group, a slip bearing the names of the
candidates in the group, and deal with the slips in accordance with
Schedule 2;
(b) the
group whose names appear on the first slip obtained by the returning officer
in accordance with clause 5 of Schedule 2 shall be placed first on
the ballot papers, the group whose names appear on the second slip so obtained
shall be placed second on the ballot papers, and so on, until the placing of
all the groups on the ballot papers has been determined.
(6) If there are more
candidates for election than the relevant number and 2 or more of them are not
included in a group, the order of the names of the candidates not included in
a group as they shall be placed on the ballot papers shall be determined as
follows —
(a) the
returning officer shall, at the place of declaration of nominations,
immediately after the close of nominations and before all persons then
present, make out in respect of each of those candidates, a slip bearing his
name, and proceed to deal with the slips in accordance with Schedule 2;
(b) the
candidate whose name appears on the first slip obtained by the returning
officer in accordance with clause 5 of Schedule 2 shall, of those
candidates, be placed first on the ballot papers, the candidate whose name
appears on the second slip so obtained shall, of those candidates, be placed
second on the ballot papers, and so on, until the placing of all the names of
the candidates on the ballot papers has been determined.
(7) As soon as is
practicable the returning officer shall advertise the names and other
particulars of the several candidates, in the order prescribed by
section 113B, in a newspaper circulating in the region.
(8) Subject to
section 88(1) the proceedings shall then stand adjourned to polling
day.
[Section 87 inserted by No. 40 of 1987
s. 48; amended by No. 79 of 1987 s. 27; No. 36 of 2000
s. 39 and 41; No. 64 of 2006 s. 53.]