Acts and Regulations

E-3 - Elections Act

Section 88
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Peace and order at election
88(1)From the time a poll supervisor takes the oath of office until completion of the performance of his or her duties as a poll supervisor, he or she is a conservator of the peace vested with all the powers of a peace officer and may do any of the following:
(a) require the assistance of peace officers, constables or other persons present to aid him or her in maintaining peace and good order at the election;
(b) arrest or cause by verbal order to be arrested and place or cause to be placed in the custody of a constable or other person, any person disturbing the peace and good order at the election,
(c) cause such arrested person to be imprisoned under an order signed by him until an hour not later than the close of the poll, and
(d) remove or cause to be removed on the day of an advance poll or the ordinary polling day any advertisement, handbill, placard, poster, billboard, electronic billboard, or any other means of display in any form having reference to an election, a candidate or a matter to be voted on at a plebiscite which is displayed within 30 metres of a polling station.
88(2)Repealed: 2010, c.6, s.95
1967, c.9, s.88; 1974, c.12 (Supp.), s.25; 1997, c.53, s.16; 1998, c.32, s.64; 2010, c.6, s.95
Peace and order at election
88(1)From the time a poll supervisor takes the oath of office until completion of the performance of his or her duties as a poll supervisor, he or she is a conservator of the peace vested with all the powers of a peace officer and may do any of the following:
(a) require the assistance of peace officers, constables or other persons present to aid him or her in maintaining peace and good order at the election;
(b) arrest or cause by verbal order to be arrested and place or cause to be placed in the custody of a constable or other person, any person disturbing the peace and good order at the election,
(c) cause such arrested person to be imprisoned under an order signed by him until an hour not later than the close of the poll, and
(d) remove or cause to be removed on the day of an advance poll or the ordinary polling day any advertisement, handbill, placard, poster, billboard, electronic billboard, or any other means of display in any form having reference to an election, a candidate or a matter to be voted on at a plebiscite which is displayed within 30 metres of a polling station.
88(2)Repealed: 2010, c.6, s.95
1967, c.9, s.88; 1974, c.12(Supp.), s.25; 1997, c.53, s.16; 1998, c.32, s.64; 2010, c.6, s.95
Peace and order at election
88(1)Every returning officer, deputy returning officer and supervisory deputy returning officer, from the time he takes his oath of office until completion of the performance of his duties as such officer, is a conservator of the peace invested with all the powers appertaining to a justice of the peace, and he may
(a) require the assistance of justices of the peace, constables or other persons present to aid him in maintaining peace and good order at the election,
(b) arrest or cause by verbal order to be arrested and place or cause to be placed in the custody of a constable or other person, any person disturbing the peace and good order at the election,
(c) cause such arrested person to be imprisoned under an order signed by him until an hour not later than the close of the poll, and
(d) remove or cause to be removed on the day of an advance poll or the ordinary polling day any advertisement, handbill, placard, poster, dodger, billboard, electronic billboard, or any other means of display in any form having reference to an election, a candidate or a matter to be voted on at a plebiscite which is displayed on the premises in which a polling station is located or within thirty metres of the said premises.
88(2)The returning officer may appoint, or may authorize the supervisory deputy returning officer, where one is appointed, or the deputy returning officer to appoint, a constable or constables to maintain order in any polling station throughout polling day, and where three or more polling stations are located in the same premises at least one constable shall be so appointed.
1967, c.9, s.88; 1974, c.12(Supp.), s.25; 1997, c.53, s.16; 1998, c.32, s.64