Do you live in one area and pay rates on a property in another?
Then you may qualify to vote more than once at the local authority elections on 12 October 2019.
Eligibility criteria
If you live and vote in one council district, but also pay rates on a property in another district, you may be eligible to enrol as a non-resident ratepayer elector in that other council district.
If you are a residential elector in one local board area and pay rates on a property in another local board area, you may be eligible to enrol as a ratepayer elector in that other local board area.
A firm, company, trust, corporation or society which pays rates on a property may nominate one of its members or officers as a non-resident ratepayer elector, provided that the nominator and the person nominated are both registered as parliamentary electors at addresses which are outside the council district within which the property is situated.
In the case of partners, joint tenants and tenants in common, who collectively pay rates on a property, one member of the group may be nominated to be entered on the ratepayer electoral roll. Again, the nominated person and the nominator must be registered as parliamentary electors at addresses which are outside the council district within which the property is situated.
Eligibility to enrol or to be nominated will depend on individual circumstances
In each case, only one ratepayer elector can be nominated, irrespective of the number of properties owned by the firm, company, society, trust, partnership or ratepayer in a council district.
New ratepayer electors
The ratepayer electoral roll closes on 16 August 2019. If you think you may be eligible to enrol or to nominate a person for the ratepayer electoral roll, you will need to obtain an enrolment form for ratepayer electors from the city or district council to which you pay your rates.
If you are on the parliamentary electoral roll, you will automatically be on the local authority residential electoral roll.
