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© State of New South Wales through NSW Electoral Commission, 2018.

This website contains information, data, documents, pages and images (Material) prepared by the New South Wales Electoral Commission. The Material is subject to copyright under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and is owned by the State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission.

The Material on this website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CCA License), except as noted below.

This CCA License enables a person to copy, distribute and adapt the Material for any purpose on the condition that it is appropriately attributed to the NSW Electoral Commission by including the copyright notice ‘© State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission’ on all uses.

You are also required under the CCA License to provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made. You must not in any way suggest the NSW Electoral Commission endorses you or your use. The CCA License does not give you all of the permissions necessary, for example, other rights such as privacy or moral rights may limit how you use the Material. We recommend you familiarise yourself with the terms of the CCA License before any decision is made to utilise the Material on this website.

You must obtain written permission from the NSW Electoral Commission if you wish to use, copy, distribute, adapt or otherwise deal with Material not licensed under the CCA License.

To obtain such permission, contact us. 

With respect to Material not covered by the CCA License, the NSW Electoral Commission reserves all rights to refuse approval or make approval subject to specific terms and conditions including the payment of fees and charges.

Material not licensed under the CCA License

The CCA License does not apply to the following material:

  • Intellectual property (including copyright) owned by third parties. Such material may not be expressly identified.

  • NSW Electoral Commission logos and trademarks, State Coat of Arms, emblems, logos and symbols, or any other government-owned trademarks, logos and brands (unless incidentally reproduced in using an unaltered document under the CCA License).

  • Personal information (eg photographs of people that may be approved for use in NSW Electoral Commission publishing only).

  • Images, photographs, cinematographic film and music.

  • any material on this website that expressly states to be published subject to specified conditions other than the CCA License.

  • Any material hosted on a different site (note that in some cases we provide links on this site to material on another website).

  • Source codes belonging to the NSW Electoral Commission or third parties that are used on this website or a different site that facilitates the functions and services of the NSW Electoral Commission eg all sources codes and software relating to technology assisted voting.

Use of Material in a way not permitted by this copyright notice may be an infringement of copyright. Infringing copyright may expose you to legal action by, and liability to, the copyright owner.

Third party intellectual property

This website contains third party material that may or may not be identified. Wherever a third party holds copyright in material presented on this website, the copyright remains with that party. Their permission may be required to use the material. You will need to contact the NSW Electoral Commission to confirm whether the material is licensed pursuant to the CCA License or the third party copyright owner.

Trademarks

The Material includes registered trademarks of the NSW Electoral Commission and are protected by law. The trademarks are owned by the NSW Electoral Commission. Except as stated above, these cannot be used without the express permission of the NSW Electoral Commission. To request permission, contact us.

Links to this site

If you plan to create a link to this website, please note these conditions:

  • Links must be to the homepage or other high level page.

  • Logos, emblems and trademarks of the NSW Government and/or NSW Election Commission must not be used for web linking purposes.

  • The website should be opened in a new window and not within a frame of your own branding.

  • You must not use the link to provide, or in any way imply, endorsement of your organisation, services or products by the NSW Government and/or the NSW Electoral Commission.

  • Links must be presented in a way that fairly represents the role of the NSW Electoral Commission.You must not pass off content from this website as your own. This includes copying or re-using parts of the website. See our Copyright notice above.

In addition, the originating site must not contain the following:

  • Illegal, sexually explicit or otherwise offensive or distasteful material.

  • Content promoting gaming, wagering or betting sites.

  • Material that promotes harassment, hatred or discrimination based on age, race, religion, gender, sexual preference or any other factor.

  • Defamatory, disparaging, abusive, threatening or offensive messages, whether aimed at the NSW Electoral Commission or a third party.

  • Any material labelled not to be covered by the CCA License.

  • False or misleading information about the NSW Electoral Commission.

If you find a broken link on the website, contact us.

Last updated 07 September 2023 at 2:32 PM