South Australian Current Regulations South Australian Current Regulations11—Trading hours—procedure for secret ballot
For the purposes of section 61(1)(c) of the Act, a secret ballot for the
approval of core trading hours must be conducted as follows:
(a) the
proposed core trading hours must be incorporated into a resolution to be put
at a meeting of the persons who are entitled to vote on the matter (see
section 61(2) of the Act);
(b) the
lessor and each lessee of a retail shop affected by the proposal must receive
at least 10 days notice of the meeting;
(c) the
notice must—
(i)
be in writing; and
(ii)
state the time and place at which the meeting will be
held; and
(iii)
set out the text of the resolution that is to be put to
the meeting;
(d) a
person who is entitled to vote at the meeting may, by written instrument,
appoint another person to act as his or her proxy at the meeting;
(e) the
person or persons who are proposing the resolution must make up, and provide
at the meeting, ballot papers for the purposes of the ballot;
(f) the
ballot papers must set out the text of the resolution and clearly indicate a
place where a person who is voting may vote for, or against, the resolution;
(g) the
persons present at the relevant meeting must appoint 1 of their number to
preside at the meeting and to conduct the ballot;
(h) the
person presiding at the meeting—
(i)
may require that the ballot papers be altered or replaced
before the ballot is conducted if he or she is dissatisfied with the form or
content of the ballot papers, or otherwise considers that it is appropriate to
take action under this provision; and
(ii)
may decide any other question relevant to the conduct of
the ballot;
(i)
each person who casts a vote in the ballot is entitled to
scrutinise the counting of votes.