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- Title
- Legislative Council casual vacancies in South Australia
- Author(s)
- Newton-Farrelly, Jenni
- Abstract
- Casual vacancies occur when a Member resigns or retires or dies, before the end of the term for which he or she has been elected. In the House of Assembly, a casual vacancy is filled when a new Member is elected by the voters of the electorate at a byelection, but in the Legislative Council a casual vacancy is filled when a new Member is chosen by an assembly of the Members of both Houses of the Parliament. This paper addresses the following questions: · What is the background to this procedure for filling vacancies in the Legislative Council? · Who can be nominated to fill a casual vacancy? · Who decides who will be nominated to fill the vacancy? · Who votes on the nomination? · Can someone who resigns from the Legislative Council and causes a vacancy, be nominated to fill their own vacancy? [Introduction]
- Publication type
- Report
- Source
- Research Note, No. 9
- Publication year
- 2006
- Keyword(s)
- Casual vacancies; Elections; Legislative Council; South Australia
- Publisher
- South Australian Parliament Research Library
- ISSN
- 0816-4282
- Publisher URL
- http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2006 South Australian Parliament Research Library. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
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