Third

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2014

BILL 25

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

ELECTIONS ACT, 1991

Received and Read the First Time .................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ..........................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

DARIN T. KING

Government House Leader

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Elections Act, 1991 to confirm the validity

of writs issued for by-elections in the electoral districts of Trinity - Bay de

Verde and Humber East.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ELECTIONS ACT, 1991

Analysis

S.58 Amdt.

Polling day

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1992 cE-3.1

as amended

Section 58 of the Elections Act, 1991 is amended by renumbering it as subsection 58(1)

and by adding immediately after that subsection the following:

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) and the Statutes and Subordinate Legislation Act ,

the fact that writs respecting the by-elections to be held in the electoral

districts of Trinity - Bay de Verde and Humber East were issued on November 3,

2014 but the proclamations respecting those by-elections were not published in

the Gazette until November 4, 2014

does not invalidate those writs nor does it in any way affect the validity of

the calling of those by-elections.

Queen's Printer