Acts and Regulations

E-3 - Elections Act

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Temporary residence
46(1)No person shall, for the purpose of this Act, be deemed to be ordinarily resident in the Province, if occupying quarters or premises that are generally occupied by him only during some or all of the months of May to October, inclusive, and generally remain unoccupied during some or all of the months of November to April, inclusive, unless
(a) he is occupying such quarters in the course of and in the pursuit of his ordinary gainful occupation, or
(b) he has no quarters in any other electoral district to which he might at will remove.
46(2)A person shall not be deemed to have gained a residence in the Province, or in an electoral district, if he has come into the Province for temporary purposes only, without the intention of making the Province, and some place in the electoral district, his home.
1967, c.9, s.46; 1998, c.32, s.43