18B   Enrolment letter

(1)  The Electoral Commissioner must, at least 90 days before the closing date for an election (the proposed election) for the City of Sydney, send an enrolment letter addressed:

(a)  to each person whose name appeared on a non-residential roll prepared and confirmed for the previous election, at the address of the person appearing on the roll, and

(b)  to each corporation or firm that nominated a person as an elector for the previous election, at the address of the corporation or firm appearing on the form of nomination.

(2)  An enrolment letter is a letter stating the following:

(a)  that an election for the City of Sydney is to be held,

(b)  the date the election is to be held,

(c)  that the person the enrolment letter is addressed to may be entitled to be enrolled as an elector on the roll of non-resident owners of rateable land or the roll of occupiers and ratepaying lessees, or to nominate a person to be so enrolled, for the election,

(d)  that a person will not be enrolled on such a roll unless inclusion on the roll is applied for before the date prescribed for the closing of the roll of electors for the election,

(e)  the date prescribed for the closing of the roll of electors for the election.

(3)  The lapsing of a non-residential roll after the election for which it was prepared does not prevent or otherwise affect use of the roll for the purposes of this section.

(4)  In this section and clause 31 of Schedule 3:

closing date for an election has the same meaning as it has in the Principal Act.

non-residential roll means the roll of non-resident owners of rateable land or the roll of occupiers and ratepaying lessees.

previous election in relation to a proposed election means the last election for the City of Sydney held before the proposed election, whether the last election was an ordinary election, a by-election or other kind of election.