Water Management Act 1999
213Poll to be taken
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213 Poll to be taken
(1) Before proceeding to borrow money, a trust must take a poll of its electors.
(2) Before taking the poll, the trust must give public notification of the proposed borrowing twice in a local newspaper and the later notice is to be published not more than one week before the taking of the poll.
(3) The notification is to contain the following particulars:
(a) the hours during which, and the place at which, the poll will be taken;
(b) the amount proposed to be borrowed;
(c) the purposes for which the proposed loan is to be applied.
(4) [Section 213 Subsection (4) substituted by No. 56 of 2008, s. 97, Applied:11 Feb 2009] The poll is to be taken as prescribed by the regulations.