18Preparation of preliminary roll

18 Preparation of preliminary roll

18 Preparation of preliminary roll

(1) As soon as practicable after the Minister directs that a poll be taken on a question, the returning officer must notify the appropriate officer that a poll is to be held on the question.

(2) As soon as practicable after being notified of the poll, the appropriate officer must give the returning officer—

(a) a preliminary roll, and

(b) for each person included in the roll—an appropriately addressed label or envelope or an electronic version of the label or envelope.

(3) The preliminary roll must contain the following—

(a) the full names, in alphabetical order and consecutively numbered, of—

(i) for a poll under the Act, section 4(2)(b)—the persons who, in the appropriate officer’s opinion, are the proposed constituents of the committee, or

(ii) for a poll under the Act, section 17(1)—the committee’s constituents,

(b) the addresses of the persons included in the roll under paragraph (a),

(c) if a primary producer has nominated a nominee—the full name and address of the nominee listed next to the primary producer,

(d) if, for a poll under the Act, section 17(1), the committee’s foundation regulation provides for different voting entitlements for the committee’s constituents—the voting entitlements of the constituents.

(4) The preliminary roll must be certified by the appropriate officer as having been prepared in accordance with this section.