Bill 32 (Legislature 18, Session 1)

L18 S1 5484

Alberta — Bills

1975 Bill 32 ( Second Session) First Session, 18th Legislature, 24 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 32 THE ELECTORAL BO!UNDARIES COMMISSI'ON AMEND'MENT ACT, 1975 HONOURABLE MR. HYNDMAN First Reading Second Reading Third Reading Printed by the Queen's Printer for the Province of Alberta, EDMONTON

BiU I~ BILL 32 1975 (Second Session) THE ELE,CTORAL BOUNDARIES COMMISSI'ON AMEND'MENT ACT, 1975 ( Assented to , 1975) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of . the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Electoral Boundaries Commission Act is hereby amended. z.

Section 2 is amended by adding the following clause after clause (b): (h1) "existing urban electoral division" means an elec toral division described in the

Schedule to The Leg islative Assembly Act that comprises the whole or part of a city or town named in

section 13;

Section 6 is amended by striking out subsection (2).

Section 7, subsection (1) is amended by striking out t,he words "not later than December 1 in the year in which it is appointed" and substituting the words "within 12 months of the date on which the Commission is appointed".

Section 9, subsecUon (1) is amended by striking out the words "not later than February 15 following submission of" and substituting the words "within six months of the date it submits".

Section 10, clause (

a) is struck out and the following ,Zause 3ubstituted: (&) if the Assembly is in session when the report is sub mitted, be forthwith laid before the Assembly, or

Explanatory Note$ l. This Bill will amend

chapter 118 of the Revi3ed Statute.s' of Alberta 1970. 2. "Existing urban electoral division" defined.

Section 6 presently reads: 6.

(1) A new Comtnission shall be appointoo dUring the first session of t.e Legislature following every second general election followinll the appolntmeJlt of the last Commission,

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where less than eight years has elaplJed since the appointment of the last Commission, a new Commission shall not ~e appointed until those eillht years have elapsed.

Section 7, subsection (1) presently reads: 7.

(1) The Commission shall, after considering any representations to it anti not later than December 1 in the year in which it is appointed, submit to the Speaker of the Assembly a report which shall delineate the boundaries of the proposed electoral divisions.

Section 9, subsection (1) presently reads: D.

(1) The Commission may, after considering any further representatiollis made to it and not later than February 15 following submission of itl report, qubmit to the Speaker such amendments to its report as it considers advisable.

Section 10, clause (

a) presently reads: 10. The report of the Commission, tOllether with any amendments thereto, shall. (

a) if the Assembly is in session on February 15, be forthwith laid before the Assembly, or

Section 12 is struck out and the following

section substituted: 12. The Commission shall divide the Province into 79 proposed electoral divisions consisting of (a) 43 proposed urban electoral divisions, and (b) 36 proposed rural electoral divisions. 8.

Section .13 is struck out and the following

section substituted: 13.

(1) The Commission shall establish (

a) the cities of Camrose, Drumheller, Grande Prairie, Medicine Hat, Red Deer and Wetaskiwin and the town of St. Albert, each as a proposed urban elec toral division; (b) 16 proposed urban electoral divisions in the City of Calgary; (c) 18 proposed urban electoral divisions in the City of Edmonton; . (

d) two proposed urban electoral divisions in the City of Lethbridge.

(2) The areas of the Province that are not included in proposed urban electoral divisions shall be included in pro posed rural electoral divisions.

Section 19 is struck out. 10. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

Section 12 presently reads: 12. The Commission shall divide the Province into 75 proposed electoral divisions, which shall be of two kinds, namely. (

a) urban electoral divisions, and (

b) rural electoral divisions.

Section 13 presently reads: 13.

(1) The Commission shall establish one or more proposed urban electoral divisions in each of the following urban municipalities only: Calgary Camrose Drumheller Enmonton GI ande Prairie Lethbridge Medicine Hat Red Deer St. Albert Wetaskiwin.

(2) The number of proposed urban electoral divisions shall be determined by dividing the total voter population of the existing urban electoral divisions by a figu.re 25 per cent above the average voter population of all the existing electoral divisions, both urban and rural.

(3) The voter population of the community of Sherwood Park shall be included as part of the total voter population of the existing urban electoral divisions for the purposes of sllbsection (2).

Section 19 presently reads: 19. The areas of the Province that are not included in proposed urban electoral divisions shall be included in proposed rural electoral divisions, the number of which shall be determined by subtracting the number of proposed urban electoral divisions from the total number of proposed electoral divisions to be established. Title: 1975 (18th, 1st) Bill 32, The Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 1975

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