Manitoba Hansard — 39 4 b229e.php

39-4 b229e.php

Manitoba — Debates (Hansard)

Search the Bills

Current Session:

43 - 3 (2025-

Past Sessions:

43rd Legislature

43 - 2 (2024-2025)

43 - 1 (2023-2024)

42nd Legislature

42 - 5 (2022-2023)

42 - 4 (2021-2022)

42 - 3 (2020-2021)

42 - 2 (2019-2020)

42 - 1 (2019)

41st Legislature

41 - 4 (2018-2019)

41 - 3 (2017-2018)

41 - 2 (2016-2017)

41 - 1 (2016)

40th Legislature

40 - 5 (2015-2016)

40 - 4 (2014-2015)

40 - 3 (2013-2014)

40 - 2 (2012-2013)

40 - 1 (2011-2012)

39th Legislature

39 - 5 (2010-2011)

39 - 4 (2009-2010)

39 - 3 (2008-2009)

39 - 2 (2007-2008)

39 - 1 (2007)

38th Legislature

38 - 5 (2006-2007)

38 - 4 (2005-2006)

38 - 3 (2004-2005)

38 - 2 (2003-2004)

38 - 1 (2003)

37th Legislature

37 - 4 (2002-2003)

37 - 3 (2001-2002)

37 - 2 (2000-2001)

37 - 1 (1999-2000)

Home → Legislative Business → Bills → 39-4

Status of bills in this Session.

Fourth Session, Thirty-Ninth Legislature

This version is based on the printed bill that was distributed in the Legislature after First Reading.

It is not the official version. If accuracy is critical, you can obtain a copy of the printed bill from Statutory Publications or view the online bilingual version (PDF) .

Bill 229

THE ELECTIONS AMENDMENT ACT

Explanatory Note

(Assented to )

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. E30 amended

The Elections Act is amended by this Act.

Subsection 22(2) is repealed.

Section 23 is replaced with the following:

Appointing chief electoral officer

The chief electoral officer must be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council

(

a) on the recommendation of the Standing Committee on Legislative Affairs; and

(

b) following a resolution of the Assembly carried by a vote of more than two-thirds of the members voting.

Coming into force

This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.

Explanatory Note

Under this Bill, a person may be appointed as chief electoral officer only after the appointment has been recommended by the Standing Committee on Legislative Affairs and approved by a vote of more than two-thirds of the members of the Assembly who vote.

Document details

Collection	Manitoba — Debates (Hansard)
Citation	39-4 b229e.php
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	39 4 b229e.php
Language	en
Format	html
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	4628f53004ea97b4959e49440664deb1e7cc3eac

Source file is stored in the law ingest library (html).