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must declare his or her availability to fulfil the requirements of the position for the full
24 month period.
Who can vote?
To vote for the Management Committee, a person must be:
an ordinary member, organisational member (one (1) representative), associate
(affiliated) member or life member of QACC, as per sections 6 and 7 of QACCs
constitution. All voters must have met all their financial obligations of being a QACC
member under the QACC constitution on Election Day. The last day for accepting
new membership applications and payments is Sunday, 6 December 2015. Existing
QACC members who are not election candidates can renew their memberships on
Election Day and vote.
New membership applicants on the day of the election cannot vote.
present at the AGM on the day of the election or appoint a proxy who is present at the
AGM. A proxy must present to the Electoral Officer at the AGM a signed proxy form
from the QACC member, as well as the proxys Photo ID card (this is the ID of the
person attending the AGM), before the vote is held. For organisational members,
please make sure you nominate a representative to attend and vote on your
organisations behalf.
Where the representative is not your President, he or she must present a proxy form signed by
the President.
Visit the QACC website (www.qacc.com.au) or email the Secretary at qacc@qacc.com.au to
find out how to become a member.
When elections can be held
As directed by the constitution, clause 25.5, Management Committee elections will be
held during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday 12th December 2015,
12noon at African House, 10 Jean Howie Drive, Morningside
Nominating for the Management Committee
Section 14 of the QACC constitution states the following process for the nominations.
Any two members (nominator and seconder) of QACC may nominate another ordinary
member to serve as a member of the Management Committee
The nomination must be in writing and signed by the nominated member and the
nominating members. The nomination is to be lodged with the Electoral Officer by the
nomination deadline, Sunday, 6 December 2015.
The Electoral Officer must provide a list of the candidate's names and the position they
are standing for to all members at least seven (7) days before the AGM.
If there are no (zero) nominations for a particular position, nominations can be taken
from the floor on the day of the AGM before the election. The nomination must
comply with the first point under this section.
Submitting your nomination
Completed and fully signed nomination forms must be lodged by 5pm on Sunday,
6 December 2015 to qacc@qacc.com.au by;
Email
QACC ELECTION POLICY
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Appeal process
Any financial member who wishes to appeal after the final results have been declared
can do so by directly appealing to the Electoral Officer within 24 hours.
The Electoral Officer and any independent observers will consider the appeal within 24
hours of the appeal being lodged and notify all financial members of their decision. If
their decision is a recount of votes, then the Electoral Officer and independent
observers must notify all financial members of the results of the recount.
If there are no appeals, ballot papers will be destroyed within 48 hours of the election
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