Palmerston North City Council Candidates Information Booklet

7CANDIDATE PROFILESTATEMENTSThe Electoral Act allows for candidate profiles statements to be provided by eachcandidate with their nomination paper. The profiles are then collated by the ElectoralOfficer and forwarded to electors in a booklet which is distributed with the voting papers.Profile statements must be submitted at the same time as the other nomination items arelodged. Statements will not be accepted at a later time or date, even althoughnominations might still be open at the time. Similarly, statements, once submitted,cannot be amended at a later date. This is a new requirement of the Local Electoral Act.The candidate profile statement is a statement of up to 150 words including informationabout the candidate together with his or her policies and intentions if elected to office.Profile statements must also state whether or not the candidate’s principal place ofresidence is in the MidCentral District Health Board area, and must also specify anyother position that the candidate is seeking to be elected to, anywhere in New Zealand.This information may be presented on the Nomination Paper itself. These are also newrequirements of the Local Electoral Act.The candidate profile statement must be true and accurate and the Electoral Officer isnot required to verify or investigate any information included in the statement.The photograph must be a recent passport-sized photograph (approximately 50mm x40mm) of the candidate. It is asked that candidates submit two passport-sizephotographs with their nomination. Their name should be clearly printed on the reverseside of both copies.The candidate profile statement, where supplied, is required to be included with thevoting paper sent to each elector by the Electoral Officer. The photographs ofcandidates will be reproduced in black and white, and probably in a slightly reducedformat to that supplied. Photographs will not be returned to candidates.A candidate profile statement may be in English or Māori, or both, but must not exceed150 words in each of the languages used in the statement. This may allow an overallstatement of up to 300 words in total, but neither language must exceed 150 words. If acandidate profile statement is submitted in Māori and English, the information containedin each language must be substantially consistent with the information contained in theother language.The candidate profile statement may also be provided in any other language orcombination of languages other than English or Māori. In this case, the statementcannot exceed 150 words in total. If the language or languages concerned usedsymbols rather than words, each symbol will be counted as a word. Should all or partsPalmerston North City Council Elections 201319