Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:section:165
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 165
Character Range: 348408–349052

165  Multiple nominations prohibited
 (1) Where:
 (a) a day is fixed as the polling day for 2 or more elections under this Act; and
 (b) at the hour of nomination there exist nominations of a person for 2 or more of those elections;
each of those nominations is invalid.
 (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), where a person has consented to act if elected in relation to a nomination in relation to an election and the person withdraws that consent under section 177 before the hour of nomination, the nomination of the person for the election shall be taken to have ceased to have effect at the time when the person withdrew that consent.