Acts and Regulations

E-3 - Elections Act

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Repealed
83.2Repealed: 2010, c.6, s.79
1985, c.45, s.15; 1997, c.53, s.15; 2010, c.6, s.79
Mobile polling stations
83.2(1)The deputy returning officer and poll clerk shall, on polling day, carry the ballot box, poll book, ballot papers and other necessary documents from room to room in the treatment centre or public hospital and, in the discretion of the deputy returning officer, to a common area in the treatment centre or public hospital to take the vote of
(a) residents of the treatment centre who are ordinarily resident in the polling division in which the treatment centre is located and are otherwise qualified as electors, and
(b) patients in the public hospital who are ordinarily resident in the electoral district in which the public hospital is located and are otherwise qualified as electors.
83.2(2)Subject to subsection (3), the deputy returning officer and poll clerk shall follow the procedure prescribed for an ordinary polling station and the deputy returning officer shall give the resident of the treatment centre or the patient at a public hospital any assistance that may be necessary in accordance with subsections 83(1) and (4).
83.2(3)An elector who is a patient in a public hospital shall take an oath in the form prescribed by regulation before voting.
1985, c.45, s.15; 1997, c.53, s.15