Acts and Regulations

E-3 - Elections Act

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Preliminary list
20(1)The Chief Electoral Officer shall, forthwith after the issue of the writ, cause to be prepared preliminary lists of all persons who, on the basis of information available under this Act, the Chief Electoral Officer has reason to believe are qualified as electors in each polling division of each electoral district, and shall send such lists to the returning officers along with all other information in the register of electors relating to electors in an electoral district.
20(2)The preliminary list of electors for any polling division or part of a polling division may be prepared from information in the register of electors established and maintained under section 20.1, or from information obtained by an enumeration carried out in accordance with section 20.16, or in part from the register of electors and in part from an enumeration.
20(3)When the preliminary lists of electors have been prepared, the returning officer shall provide one machine readable copy of the list for each polling division in the electoral district to each recognized party which has an officially nominated candidate in the electoral district and to each independent candidate who has been officially nominated in the electoral district.
20(4)Not later the fourteenth day before ordinary polling day, the Chief Electoral Officer shall cause to be sent to each person on the preliminary list of electors for a polling division a notice in the prescribed form advising each person of the polling division and polling station for which he or she is listed as being eligible to vote.
1967, c.9, s.20; 1998, c.32, s.14; 2010, c.6, s.12
Preliminary list
20(1)The Chief Electoral Officer shall, forthwith after the issue of the writ, cause to be prepared preliminary lists of all persons who, on the basis of information available under this Act, the Chief Electoral Officer has reason to believe are qualified as electors in each polling division of each electoral district, and shall send such lists to the returning officers along with all other information in the register of electors relating to electors in an electoral district.
20(2)The preliminary list of electors for any polling division or part of a polling division may be prepared from information in the register of electors established and maintained under section 20.1, or from information obtained by an enumeration carried out in accordance with section 20.16, or in part from the register of electors and in part from an enumeration.
1967, c.9, s.20; 1998, c.32, s.14