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1997 Legislative Session: 2nd Session, 36th Parliament

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HONOURABLE UJJAL DOSANJH

ATTORNEY GENERAL AND MINISTER

RESPONSIBLE FOR MULTICULTURALISM,

HUMAN RIGHTS AND IMMIGRATION

BILL 13 – 1997

ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES COMMISSION

AMENDMENT ACT, 1997

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province

of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Section 4 (1) of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act,

(1) The commission member who is a retired judge appointed under

section 2 (

a) and

the commission member who is appointed under

section 2 (

b) may be paid the

remuneration for his or her services on the commission in an amount prescribed

by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Section 5 (1) is repealed and the following substituted:

(1) The first commission shall be appointed during the second session of the 36th

Parliament.

Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, R.S.B.C. 1996

Section 4 (1) of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 107, is repealed and the following substituted:

(1) The commission member who is a retired judge appointed under

section 2 (1) (

a) and the commission member who is appointed under

section 2 (1) (

b) may be paid

remuneration for his or her services on the commission in an amount prescribed

by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Section 5 is repealed and the following substituted:

Time of appointment of commission

(1) The first commission must be appointed during the second session of the 36th

Parliament.

(2) A new commission must be appointed during the first session of the Legislature

following every second general election following the appointment of the first

commission.

Explanatory Notes

[Sections 3 and 4 of this bill amend the Revised Statutes

of British Columbia, 1996. The Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1996 come

into force on April 21, 1997.]

SECTION 1: [Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, repeals and replaces

section 4 (1)] amends

section 4 to allow a retired judge appointed under

section 2 (

a) to be paid remuneration for his or her services on the commission.

SECTION 2: [Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, repeals and replaces

section 5 (1)] amends

section 5 to require the Legislature to appoint the first commission in the second session of the 36th Parliament.

Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, R.S.B.C. 1996

SECTIONS 3 and 4: [Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, repeal and replace sectin 4 (1) and re-enact

section 5] are consequential to the re-enactment of the statutes of British Columbia in the form of the Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1996, which come into force on April 21, 1997. Sections 3 and 4 of the Bill make the same changes in the 1996 revision as sections 1 and 2 of the Bill make in the pre-revision version of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act .

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