Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:clause:3_289
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 289
Character Range: 655886–657133

289  Appointment of agents by candidates and groups

Agents of candidates
 (1) A candidate in an election (including a member of a group of candidates) may appoint a person to be the agent of the candidate in relation to the election.
Note: A group of candidates has an agent who is separate from the candidates' agents (see subsections (3) and (4)).
 (2) If the candidate does not appoint an agent, the candidate is taken to be his or her own agent in relation to the election.

Agents of members of groups
 (3) The members of a group of candidates in an election may appoint a person to be the agent of the group in relation to the election.
 (4) If the members of a group of candidates do not appoint an agent:
 (a) if all the members have been endorsed by the same registered political party—the agent of the State branch of the party organised on the basis of the State or Territory in which the election is to be held is taken to be the agent of the group in relation to the election; and
 (b) otherwise—the candidate whose name appears first in the group in the ballot papers (or if that candidate dies, the candidate whose name appears next highest in the ballot papers) is taken to be the agent of the group in relation to the election.