16Limit on number of votes

16 Limit on number of votes

(1)  Except as provided by regulation 15(1) , each person who is eligible to vote in an election is only entitled to cast one vote in that election, regardless of how many parcels of land they may own or occupy or how many licences or rights to take water they may hold.

(2)  However, subregulation (1) is not to be taken as preventing an adult who is eligible to vote in an election in his or her own right from –

(a) also being nominated to exercise a voting right for and on behalf of a corporation in the same election; or

(b) if so nominated, exercising that corporate voting right in addition to his or her personal voting right.