Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 146A

146A .         Application and construction of Division

        (1)         This Division applies only in relation to a Council election and the poll taken for such an election.

        (2)         Where in relation to a Council election the relevant number is one and there are only 2 candidates, a reference in this Division and Schedule 1 to —

            (a)         the indication of an elector’s first preference for a candidate, shall be read and construed as a reference to the indication of the candidate for whom the elector votes;

            (b)         first preference votes given for a candidate, shall be read and construed as a reference to votes given for the candidate.

        [Section 146A inserted: No. 40 of 1987 s. 73; amended: No. 20 of 2021 s. 94.]