Bill C-423
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2nd Session, 36th Parliament, 48-49 Elizabeth II, 1999-2000
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The House of Commons of Canada
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BILL C-423 |
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An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act
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| R.S., c. E-2;
R.S., c. 27 (1st
Supp.), c. 27
(2nd Suppl.);
1989, c. 28;
1990, cc. 16,
17; 1991, cc.
11, 47; 1992,
cc. 1, 21, 51;
1993, cc. 19,
28; 1994, c.
26; 1995, c. 5;
1996, cc. 26,
35; 1998, cc.
15, 18, 30;
1999, c. 3
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1. Section 50 of the Canada Elections Act
is replaced by the following:
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| Persons
qualified as
electors
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50. (1) Every person who
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is qualified as an elector.
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| Persons
attaining
voting age
during
election
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(2) Every person who, on the date of the
issue of a writ ordering an election, has not
attained the age of sixteen years but who will
attain that age on or before polling day at the
election is, for the purposes of this Act,
deemed to have attained that age on the date
of the issue of the writ.
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2. Subsection 302(2.1) of the Act is
replaced by the following:
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(2.1) Where a returning officer finds it
impossible to apply the requirements of
subsection (2), the returning officer may, with
the approval of the Chief Electoral Officer,
appoint as those officers persons who are
qualified as electors, notwithstanding that
they do not reside in the electoral district
within which they are to act.
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