Chapter Number and Title of Enactment
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Chapter: | 576 | Title: | VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION ORDINANCE |  | |
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| Cap 576 | Long title | |
| Cap 576 Part 1 | PRELIMINARY | |
| Cap 576 s 1 | Short title | |
| Cap 576 s 2 | Interpretation | |
| Cap 576 s 3 | Map of Existing Village | |
| Cap 576 s 4 | Index of Villages for Electing Indigenous Inhabitant Representatives | |
| Cap 576 Part 2 | OFFICE OF VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE | |
| Cap 576 s 5 | Office of resident representative for Existing Village | |
| Cap 576 s 6 | Office of indigenous inhabitant representative for Indigenous Village or Composite Indigenous Village | |
| Cap 576 s 7 | How long a Village Representative holds office | |
| Cap 576 s 8 | Village Representative to accept office | |
| Cap 576 s 9 | When a Village Representative is disqualified from holding office | |
| Cap 576 s 10 | How a Village Representative resigns | |
| Cap 576 s 11 | When a vacancy occurs in office of village representative | |
| Cap 576 s 12 | Director to declare vacancy in office of village representative | |
| Cap 576 Part 3 | WHO MAY VOTE AT AN ELECTION | |
| Cap 576 s 13 | Who is entitled to vote at an election | |
| Cap 576 s 14 | When an elector is disqualified from voting at an election | |
| Cap 576 s 15 | Who is eligible to be registered as an elector | |
| Cap 576 s 16 | When a person is disqualified from being registered as an elector | |
| Cap 576 s 17 | Electoral Registration Officer to compile and publish registers of electors | |
| Cap 576 s 18 | When final register takes effect | |
| Cap 576 s 19 | Right of appeal to Revising Officer against decisions of Electoral Registration Officer | |
| Cap 576 Part 4 | CONDUCT OF ELECTION | |
| Cap 576 s 20 | Secretary to specify dates for village ordinary elections | |
| Cap 576 s 21 | Village by-election to be held to fill vacancy in office of village representative | |
| Cap 576 s 22 | Who is eligible to be nominated as a candidate | |
| Cap 576 s 23 | When a person is disqualified from being nominated as a candidate and from being elected as a Village Representative | |
| Cap 576 s 24 | What requirements are to be complied with by persons nominated as candidates | |
| Cap 576 s 25 | Number and qualifications of subscribers to a nomination form | |
| Cap 576 s 26 | Withdrawal of candidate's nomination | |
| Cap 576 s 27 | Who are validly nominated candidates | |
| Cap 576 s 28 | Death or disqualification of a validly nominated candidate before date of election | |
| Cap 576 s 29 | What is to happen if insufficient number of candidates is nominated for a Village | |
| Cap 576 s 30 | When election proceedings are terminated or when an election fails | |
| Cap 576 s 31 | System of voting and counting of votes | |
| Cap 576 s 32 | Consequences of non-compliance with requirements of this Ordinance | |
| Cap 576 s 33 | Misnomer or inaccuracy not to limit operation of election document | |
| Cap 576 s 34 | Election to be presumed valid | |
| Cap 576 s 35 | Election not to be questioned only because of defect in appointment of electoral officer | |
| Cap 576 s 36 | Returning Officer to publish result of election | |
| Cap 576 s 36A | Candidate declared to be returned is presumed to be duly elected | |
| Cap 576 s 37 | Offences by electoral officers with respect to conduct of election | |
| Cap 576 s 38 | Elector not to be required to disclose how vote was cast | |
| Cap 576 Part 5 | ELECTION PETITIONS | |
| Cap 576 s 39 | Election may be questioned only by election petition made on specified grounds | |
| Cap 576 s 40 | Who may lodge election petition | |
| Cap 576 s 41 | Who may be made respondent to election petition | |
| Cap 576 s 42 | Court to have jurisdiction to determine election petitions | |
| Cap 576 s 43 | Period within which election petition and appeal must be lodged* | |
| Cap 576 s 44 | Court may direct security to be given for costs | |
| Cap 576 s 45 | Court to determine election petition | |
| Cap 576 s 45A | Courtˇ¦s determination of election petition suspended before deadline of appeal | |
| Cap 576 s 45B | Court of Final Appealˇ¦s determination | |
| Cap 576 s 46 | What happens if election petition is withdrawn | |
| Cap 576 s 47 | When an election petition is terminated | |
| Cap 576 s 48 | When respondent can withdraw from election petition proceedings and be substituted | |
| Cap 576 s 49 | Acts of person not invalid if determined not duly elected* | |
| Cap 576 s 50 | What is to happen if a Village Representative is determined not duly elected | |
| Cap 576 Part 6 | APPOINTMENT AND FUNCTIONS OF OFFICERS | |
| Cap 576 s 51 | Appointment of Electoral Registration Officer and assistants | |
| Cap 576 s 52 | Electoral Registration Officer may specify forms | |
| Cap 576 s 53 | Appointment of Revising Officer | |
| Cap 576 s 54 | Appointment of Returning Officers and assistants | |
| Cap 576 s 55 | Offence to obstruct or hinder electoral officer | |
| Cap 576 s 56 | Secretary may give directions as to performance of electoral officer's functions | |
| Cap 576 s 57 | Death or incapacity of an electoral officer not to terminate authority | |
| Cap 576 Part 7 | LEGAL PROCEEDINGS | |
| Cap 576 s 58 | Proceedings against persons on grounds of disqualification | |
| Cap 576 s 59 | Period within which complaint or information shall be laid | |
| Cap 576 Part 8 | RURAL COMMITTEE | |
| Cap 576 s 60 | Constitution of a Rural Committee to be construed in accordance with this Part | |
| Cap 576 s 61 | Village Representative as a member of Rural Committee | |
| Cap 576 s 62 | Members and office holders of a Rural Committee | |
| Cap 576 Part 9 | MISCELLANEOUS | |
| Cap 576 s 63 | (Repealed 12 of 2009 s. 9) | |
| Cap 576 s 64 | Elector for an Indigenous Village or a Composite Indigenous Village not to have status of indigenous inhabitant for the Village | |
| Cap 576 s 65 | Secretary may make regulations | |
| Cap 576 s 66 | Chief Justice may make rules | |
| Cap 576 s 67 | Secretary may amend Schedule 1, 2 or 3 | |
| Cap 576 s 68 | Omitted as spent | |
| Cap 576 s 69 | Transitional provisions relating to Village Representative Election Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2009 | |
| Cap 576 Sched 1 | EXISTING VILLAGE | |
| Cap 576 Sched 2 | INDIGENOUS VILLAGE | |
| Cap 576 Sched 3 | COMPOSITE INDIGENOUS VILLAGE | |
| Cap 576 Sched 4 | (Omitted as spent) | |
| Cap 576 Sched 5 | Transitional Provisions Relating to Village Representative Election Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2009 |
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