Constitutional Convention (Election) Act 2011
53Arrangements for voting
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53 Arrangements for voting (1) For this Division, the Commission must: (a) declare regions: (i) each of which comprises one or more divisions; and (ii) to which early voting centres are related; and (b) decide the period during which, and the days and hours when, voting before the polling day may take place at early voting centres. (2) The Commission may assign a name to a region. (3) The period decided under subsection (1)(b) must not start until the order of the names of all the candidates for the election has been determined under section 25. (4) This section does not prevent a declaration under subsection (1)(a) providing for: (a) part of a division being part of a region; or (b) the whole or part of a division being part of more than one region.