If a candidate on a regional party list or any individual regional candidate dies but the regional poll remains contested, the contest will continue as normal.1
The RRO must take reasonable steps to publicise the name of the candidate, the fact of their death, whether they were an individual regional candidate or a party list candidate and, if they were standing on behalf of a registered party, the name of the party.2
The RRO should publicise the death by placing notices outside the polling stations in the electoral region.
If you receive proof and are satisfied before the result is announced that a candidate on a regional list or an individual regional candidate has died and as a result the regional poll has become uncontested the regional contest must be stopped.3
If this happens before polling begins, you must countermand the notice of poll.4
If the poll is underway or the counting is being undertaken, the regional poll or the count must be abandoned.5
In either case, the RRO must immediately notify all CROs in the region of the action that they have taken.6
After the close of the constituency polls, the RRO will declare the remaining candidates to be elected unopposed as regional members.