Acts and Regulations

E-3 - Elections Act

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Polling day
14(1)The day fixed for the poll shall at any election be a Monday, unless the Monday of the week in which it is desired to hold the poll is a holiday when the day fixed for the poll shall be Tuesday of the same week.
14(1.1)Where, pursuant to subsection (1), the day fixed for the poll at an election is a Tuesday, the provisions of this Act requiring any thing to be done on a specified day or within a specified period of time before or after polling day apply as if polling day were a Monday.
14(2)Repealed: 2010, c.6, s.8
14(3)If the date fixed for the close of nomination of candidates is a holiday, nomination day shall be the following:
(a) for a scheduled general election, the nineteenth day before ordinary polling day; and
(b) for all other elections, the sixteenth day before ordinary polling day.
14(4)All writs for a general election shall be issued on the same day and made returnable on the same day.
1967, c.9, s.14; 1985, c.45, s.2; 1997, c.53, s.5; 2010, c.6, s.8
Polling day
14(1)The day fixed for the poll shall at any election be a Monday, unless the Monday of the week in which it is desired to hold the poll is a holiday when the day fixed for the poll shall be Tuesday of the same week.
14(1.1)Where, pursuant to subsection (1), the day fixed for the poll at an election is a Tuesday, the provisions of this Act requiring any thing to be done on a specified day or within a specified period of time before or after polling day apply as if polling day were a Monday.
14(2)The day appointed for the close of the nomination of candidates shall be the seventeenth day before polling day.
14(3)If the seventeenth day before polling day is a holiday, nomination day shall be the sixteenth day before polling day.
14(4)All writs for a general election shall be issued on the same day and made returnable on the same day.
1967, c.9, s.14; 1985, c.45, s.2; 1997, c.53, s.5