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Torres Strait Regional Authority (Election of Officeholders) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret'd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 07 March 2019

  Peter Cosgrove
  Governor‑General

By His Excellency's Command

Nigel Scullion
Minister for Indigenous Affairs

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 TSRA Chief Executive Officer
Part 2—Election of officeholders at the first meeting of the TSRA after its election
Division 1—Nominations
6 Calling for nominations
7 Making nominations
8 Declaration of nominations
Division 2—Polling
9 Order of polls
10 Deciding the order of candidates on ballot‑papers
11 Ballot‑papers
12 Polling procedure
13 Voting
Division 3—Counting votes
14 Scrutineers
15 Conduct of the count
16 Informal ballot‑papers
17 Completion of the count
Division 4—Other matters
18 Declaration
19 Request for recount
Part 3—Other elections
20 Election of new Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson
21 Election of new alternate Deputy Chairperson
Part 4—Miscellaneous
22 Recording result of election
23 Destruction of election materials
Schedule 1—Method of deciding the election of a candidate
1 Absolute majority of votes
2 Exhausted ballot‑papers
3 Votes to be counted
4 Candidate with absolute majority of first preference votes elected
5 Distribution of preferences
6 Deciding which candidate is excluded
7 Deciding which unexcluded candidate is elected

Part 1—Preliminary