Voting Information Section
Who is Entitled to Vote
- All commercial swingleberry growers in New Zealand are entitled to vote.
- If you are an individual person, a company or a trust, you have one vote. Individual persons, companies, and trusts owning more than one property have one vote only. If you are in a partnership, each partner has one vote, but only for their share of the swingleberries produced by the partnership. Each partner should cast a vote. Please phone 0800 000 0000 to request enough ballot papers so that each partner gets one.
Voting
- A voting paper is attached for commercial swingleberry growers to record their vote on whether they agree or disagree with the imposition of a compulsory levy on the commercial production of swingleberries in New Zealand.
- The result will be determined by two factors:
- the "YES" votes must equal more than 50 percent of all votes cast; and
- the total value of swingleberries sold by the commercial growers who voted "YES" must equal more than 50 percent of the total value of swingleberries sold by all voters.
- Where a voting paper is returned to the returning officer not completed or completed incorrectly it will be treated as being a "NO" vote.
Deadline for Returning the Attached Voting Paper
- The voting paper must be received by the returning officer no later than 5:00pm on Friday 1 November 1996.
- Voting papers received after 5:00pm on Friday 1 November 1996 will not be used to calculate the final result.
Information from the Voting Paper
- The information contained on voting papers returned to the returning officer before 5:00pm on Friday 1 November 1996 will be used by the returning officer to ascertain the level of support from commercial swingleberry growers for a compulsory levy on swingleberries to fund the activities of the Swingleberry Growers Association of New Zealand Incorporated.
- The information will be destroyed by the returning officer immediately upon the levy order being confirmed by Act of Parliament, or upon this referendum failing to obtain the support of voters.
- The information supplied in the voting paper will be provided to the organisation for statistical and research purposes. The information will be supplied to the organisation in a form that does not identify any individual grower.
Returning Officer
- The Returning Officer is:
- Counting
Chartered Accountants
PO Box 00 000
Wellington
Contact for Enquiries
Senior Policy Analyst
Sector Performance Policy
MAF Policy
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
PO Box 2526
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +64 4 894 0690
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