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Here it is. NB: To new readers, this is from the 1996 Act and has been superseded by the 2016 Act (although it is fundamentally the same).
The process is that the Chair calls for nominations.
The meeting then decided on the number of people they want on the committee.
If the number of nominees is the same as the number of seats, no ballot is required and they are declared elected.
If the number of nominees is greater than the number of seats on the committee, you have a ballot.
If the number of nominees is fewer than the number of agreed seats, you have vacancies which must be filled by a vote of the committee members (although you would have to be very suspicious if this was allowed to happen).
(1) At a meeting of an owners corporation at which its executive committee is to be elected, the chairperson must:
(a) announce the names of the candidates already nominated in writing for election to the executive committee, and
(b) call for any oral nominations of candidates eligible for election to the executive committee.
(2) A written or oral nomination made for the purposes of such an election is ineffective if it is made by a person other than the nominee unless it is supported by the consent of the nominee given:
(a) in writing, if the nominee is not present at the meeting, or
(b) orally, if the nominee is present at the meeting.
(3) After the chairperson declares that nominations have closed, the owners corporation is to decide, in accordance with clause 2 (2) of Schedule 3 to the Act, the number of members of the executive committee.
(4) If the number of candidates:
(a) is the same as, or fewer than, the number of members of the executive committee decided on—those candidates are to be declared by the chairperson to be, and are taken to have been, elected as the executive committee, or
(b) is greater than the number so decided on—a ballot is to be held.