Electoral Management Design Database

Pitcairn Islands

Pitcairn Islands

2022

Model of electoral management

Governmental

Comment

There is no Electoral Management Body as such. The Local Government Ordinance, which is the legal document providing for elections, designates elections related responsibilites and tasks to the Island Secretary

Source

LAWS OF PITCAIRN, HENDERSON, DUCIE, AND OENO ISLANDS, Revised Edition 2019, CHAPTER XI, LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, accessed 28 April 2022

12.—[(1) The Island Secretary shall in the month of [September] in each year determine whether the year is an election year, and, ifso, whether the election isfor the offce of Mayor or for Councillors, or both, and if it is an election year shall prepare a list of all persons qualifed to vote which list shall be signed by the Mayor and publicly notifed by affixing a copy of the same to the public notice board between the 1st and 7th days of [October].]

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