Proclamation re commencement (2003-697) (NSW)

2003 No 697

New South Wales

Proclamation

under the

Local Government Amendment Act 2000 No 112

MARIE BASHIR, Governor

I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Local Government Amendment Act 2000, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 26 September 2003 as the day on which Schedule 1 [6] to that Act commences.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 24th day of September 2003.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

ANTHONY BERNARD KELLY, M.L.C.,

Minister for Local Government

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence a provision of the Local Government Amendment Act 2000 that inserts section 310A into the Local Government Act 1993. The new section allows postal votes in an election to be accepted for scrutiny at any time up to 6 pm on the first business day immediately following the close of the poll so long as they have been completed before the close of the poll.

BY AUTHORITY

Published in Gazette No 154 of 26 September 2003, page 9518 Page 1