Sydney County Council (Elections) Act 1968 (NSW)

SYDNEY COUNTY COUNCIL (ELECTIONS) ACT.

ANNO SEPTIMO DECIMO

ELIZABETHÆ II REGINÆ

Act No. 68, 1968.

An Act to make provisions with respect to the election of the chairman and councillors of the Sydney County Council; to amend the Local Government Act, 1919, the Gas and Electricity Act, 1935, and certain other Acts ; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 16th December, 1968.] BE

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as

follows: —

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the "Sydney County Council (Elections) Act, 1968".

(2) This Act shall be read and construed with the
Local Government Act, 1919, as subsequently amended, and
the Gas and Electricity Act, 1935, as subsequently amended.

(3) The Local Government Act, 1919, as subse- quently amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

2 .      Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act—

(a)	an ordinary election of councillors of the Sydney County Council shall be held within two months after the seventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight; and
(b)	the chairman of the Sydney County Council shall be elected at the first meeting of the council elected pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section, and the person holding office as chairman immediately before that meeting shall cease to hold office as
for re-election. chairman but shall be eligible, if otherwise qualified,

(1) Subject to subsection two of this section and so far as they are applicable, the provisions of the Principal Act, Ordinance No. 20A thereunder and the Gas and Electricity Act, 1935, as subsequently amended, apply in respect of the elections referred to in section two of this Act.

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(2)

(2) A person who has the requisite qualifications to be an elector for the area of the City of Sydney or the Muni­ cipality of South Sydney and whose name, on the day fixed pursuant to the said Ordinance No. 20A for nomination of candidates for election to the Sydney County Council, appears on the list, referred to in section sixty-five of the Principal Act, in respect of the area of the City of Sydney or the Municipality of South Sydney shall for the purpose of making a nomination be deemed to be enrolled on the roll of electors for that area.

(3) A person whose name appears on the list, referred to in section sixty-five of the Principal Act, in respect of the area of the City of Sydney or the Municipality of South Sydney at the time of his nomination for the election referred to in section two of this Act or at the time of that election shall be qualified for nomination or election, as the case may be, for or at that election, unless he is disqualified under the Principal Act (paragraph (a) of subsection two of section thirty excepted) or the Gas and Electricity Act, 1935, as subsequently amended.

4. (1) The ordinary election of councillors of the Sydney County Council next after the election referred to in paragraph (a) of section two of this Act, and subsequent elections of councillors, shall be held on the day appointed pursuant to subsection two of section forty-five of the Gas and Electricity Act, 1935, as subsequently amended and as

amended by this Act.

(2) The election of chairman of the Sydney County Council next after the election referred to in paragraph (b) of section two of this Act, and subsequent elections of chairmen, shall be held pursuant to subsection three of section five hundred and sixty-three of the Principal Act as in force at the time of the election.

(1) The Gas and Electricity Act, 1935, as subse- quendy amended, is amended by omitting subsection two of section forty-five and by inserting in lieu thereof the following subsection:—

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(2) Each ordinary election after the election referred to in paragraph (a) of section two of the Sydney County Council (Elections) Act, 1968, shall be held upon a day fixed and advertised by the returning officer, being within two months after the date appointed by the Prin- cipal Act for the ordinary elections of aldermen or councillors.

(2) The Gas and Electricity Act, 1935, as subse- quently amended and as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Gas and Electricity Act, 1935-1968.

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