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number of members of the Regional Council for the ward.

Total of designated numbers for wards in a region must equal the prescribed number for the Regional Council

"(4) The total of the designated numbers for the wards in a region must equal the prescribed number in relation to the Regional Council.

When rules about wards take effect

"(5) Regional Council election rules made for the purposes of this section:

     (a) have effect for the purposes of Regional Council elections held after the commencement of the rules; and

     (b) take effect, for all other purposes, at the end of the election period in relation to the first round of Regional Council elections held after the date on which the rules commence.

If no rules in force then region taken to be a single ward

"(6) For the purposes of this Act, if there are no Regional Council election rules in force that divide a region into wards:

  (a) the region is taken to be a single ward; and

     (b) the designated number in relation to the ward is equal to the prescribed number in relation to the Regional Council concerned.".

Persons entitled to vote at Regional Council elections

  9. Section 101 of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by omitting "an election for the members of a Regional Council" and substituting "a Regional Council ward election";

     (b) by omitting from subparagraph (b)(i) "the region for which the Regional Council is established" and substituting "the ward concerned".

Persons qualified to be elected to Regional Councils

  10. Section 102 of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by omitting from subsection (1) "of a Regional Council" and substituting "for a Regional Council ward";

     (b) by omitting from paragraph (1)(a) "election" and substituting "ward election concerned";

     (c) by omitting from paragraph (1)(b) "region for which the Regional Council is established" and substituting "ward".

Polling places

11. Section 105 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) "region" and substituting "Regional Council ward".

Fixing of election days, and location of polling places, to be notified in Gazette

  12. Section 106 of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a) by inserting in subsection (3) ", (1A)" after "(1)";

    (b) by adding at the end of subsection (3) the following word and paragraph:

            "; and (c) if a particular region is divided into wards—a notice setting out an estimate by the Minister, in relation to each ward, of:

                (i) the number of persons who will be entitled to vote at the forthcoming Regional Council ward election for that ward; and

                (ii) the number of persons living in that ward who are Aboriginal persons or Torres Strait Islanders.".

Repeal of section and substitution of new section