18Application for enrolment

18 Application for enrolment

18 Application for enrolment

(1) A business land owner or CID business in the CID not included in the draft roll may apply to the returning officer, in the form approved by the Authority, to be enrolled.

Example—

a business land owner or CID business in the CID not included in the draft roll because of the operation of section 17

(2) An application for enrolment must be made before the close of enrolments.

(3) The returning officer must enrol the applicant if the returning officer is satisfied—

(a) the applicant—

(i) is a business land owner in the CID, and

(ii) if the parcel of business land owned by the business land owner is owned by the applicant and one or more other business land owners—the other business land owners agree to the applicant’s enrolment, or

(b) the applicant—

(i) is a CID business in the CID, and

(ii) if the relevant business or commercial enterprise is operated by the applicant and one or more persons—the other persons agree to the applicant’s enrolment.

(4) The returning officer may request that the applicant give further information before determining the application.

(5) If the returning officer is not satisfied of the matters set out in subsection (3), the returning officer must—

(a) reject the application, and

(b) give the applicant written notice of the rejection, including the reasons for the rejection.

s 18: Ins 2025 (622), Sch 1[2].