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Bill C-218

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SUMMARY

This enactment provides that a member's seat in the House of Commons will be vacated, thus precipitating the calling of a by-elec tion, if the member, having been elected to the House as a member of a political party or as an independent, changes parties in the House or becomes a member of a party in the House, as the case may be, at any time during the term for which he or she was elected. A member's seat will not be vacated, if the member, having been elected as a member of a political party, chooses to sit as an independent at any time during the term for which he or she was elected.