171(1)If, for any reason, an advisory committee for a local service district ceases to have at least three members, the remaining members shall notify the Minister and the Minister shall, in accordance with the regulations, call a meeting of all the residents in the local service district who are qualified to vote under the Elections Act.

171(2)At a meeting called under subsection (1), an election shall be held in the manner prescribed by regulation to elect the number of new members to the advisory committee that will result in the advisory committee having not fewer than three members and not more than five members.

171(3)Despite subsection 170(3), if an election is held under subsection (2) to replace a member of an advisory committee with one year or less remaining in his or her term of office, the person elected shall hold office for the time remaining in the original member’s term of office in addition to the elected persons’s term of office.

171(4)If the Minister has not been notified under subsection (1) within six months after an advisory committee for a local service district has ceased to have at least three members, the advisory committee is dissolved.

171(5)If a person resigns as a member of an advisory committee, he or she is not eligible to be elected as a member of the advisory committee in the next election held under subsection (2) or 169(3).