Council Elections unit
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The City of Sydney is no longer required to maintain a non-residential register following legislative changes by the NSW Government in September 2023.
Please email us with your enquiry. We’ll respond within 5 business days.
Non-residential rolls for each City of Sydney election will be prepared and certified by our Chief Executive Officer. At close of rolls for each election these rolls must be confirmed by the NSW Electoral Commissioner to ensure that the voters listed are eligible for enrolment on the non-residential rolls.
You, or your corporation’s or trust’s nominee, are eligible to vote in City of Sydney elections as a non-resident if you:
Entitlement is limited to one owner, one occupier and one rate-paying lessee per rateable property.
If you own, occupy or lease as a corporation, trust, lessee of Crown land or part of a group you need to nominate someone to vote on your behalf.
You are entitled as a non-resident owner if you:
You are entitled as a non-resident occupier if you:
You are entitled as a non-resident rate-paying lessee if you:
You can only vote once for the City of Sydney, even if you or your company own, occupy or lease multiple rateable properties within the City of Sydney.
To make a claim for inclusion on the City of Sydney’s non-residential rolls you need to submit a claim form.
The information about the elector must match the enrolment details held by the NSW Electoral Commission. You can check your enrolment details online.
A claim must be signed by the person who lodges it and must contain a statement signed by a witness to the effect that the witness saw the person sign the claim and believes, to the best of the witness’s knowledge, that the statements in the claim are true.
Use this form.
Use this form.