Duty of returning officer on receipt of list of enumerated electors
30(1)The returning officer shall, upon receipt from enumerators of the lists of enumerated electors in a polling division or part of a polling division,
(a)
if the enumeration is conducted during an election period and throughout an entire polling division, use the list as the preliminary list of electors for that polling division;
(b)
if the enumeration is conducted during an election period in only a part of a polling division, revise the preliminary list of electors provided by the Chief Electoral Officer for that polling division; or
(c)
if the enumeration is conducted outside of an election period, deliver the lists to the Chief Electoral Officer to establish or revise the register of electors.
Date for completion of preliminary list
30(2)Where an enumeration is conducted during an election period, the returning officer shall complete and prepare copies of the preliminary lists of electors for all polling divisions in the electoral district not later than Wednesday, the nineteenth day before polling day.
Printing of preliminary list
30(3)The preliminary lists of electors shall be printed, in alphabetical order by surname, in accordance with the specimen forms supplied by the Chief Electoral Officer, and each copy of a preliminary list of electors for each polling division shall bear a certificate by the returning officer that such copy accurately sets out the names, civic address, and sex of each elector so far as they are known to reside in the polling division to which the list relates, but that the list is subject to revision during the revision period.
Furnishing of preliminary list to registered parties and independent candidates
30(4)When the preliminary lists of electors have been prepared, the returning officer shall furnish one paper copy and one machine readable copy thereof for each polling division in his electoral district to each recognized party which has officially nominated a candidate in the electoral district and to each independent candidate who has been nominated in the electoral district.
Notice to persons on preliminary list
30(5)The Chief Electoral Officer, not later than Monday, the fourteenth day before polling day, shall cause to be sent to each person on the preliminary list of electors for each polling division a notice in a prescribed form advising each person of the polling division and polling station for which they are listed as being eligible to vote.
Transmission of preliminary list to Chief Electoral Officer
30(6)The returning officer shall, forthwith after the preliminary lists for the polling divisions comprised in his electoral district have been printed, transmit to the Chief Electoral Officer one paper copy and one machine readable copy of the preliminary lists.
30(7)Repealed: 1998, c.32, s.26 1967, c.9, s.30; 1974, c.12(Supp.), s.6; 1974, c.92(Supp.), s.3; 1980, c.17, s.7; 1985, c.45, s.4; 1990, c.34, s.11; 1994, c.47, s.5; 1998, c.32, s.26; 2006, c.6, s.9