Second

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2005

BILL 43

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

THOMAS W. MARSHALL ,

Minister

of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Electoral Boundaries Act to provide that

a commission shall take up its duties under the Act in the calendar year 2006.

The Bill would also establish, for

the purpose of the commission's report in the calendar year 2006, the Labrador

portion of the province shall be divided into 4 districts with the districts

conforming as closely as practicable to the present districts.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES

ACT

Analysis

S.13 Amdt.

Redistribution and population quotient

S.14 Amdt.

Reports

3. S.15 Amdt.

Rules to guide commission

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cE-4

as amended

1. (1) Subsection 13(1) of the Electoral Boundaries Act is amended by

striking out the figure "1993" and substituting the figure "2006".

(2) Subsection 13(2) of the Act is repealed and

the following substituted:

(2) The commission shall determine a quotient for

each proposed district by dividing the total population of the province by the

number 47.

(2.1) Notwithstanding subsection (2), for the

purpose of the preparation of the commission's report in 2006, the commission

shall determine a quotient for each proposed district by dividing the total

population of the province by the number 44.

(3) Subsection 13 is amended by adding immediately

after subsection (5) the following:

(6) Notwithstanding subsection (5), for the

purpose of the preparation of the commission's report in 2006, the total

population of the province shall, for the purpose of subsection (2.1), be

considered not to include that portion of the total population living within

the area of the province comprising Labrador .

2. (1) Subsection 14(1) of the Act is amended

by striking out the figure "1993" and substituting the figure "2006".

(2) Subsection 14(2) of the Act is amended by

striking out the figure "1993" and substituting the figure "2006".

(3) Subsection 14(3) of the Act is repealed.

Section 15 of the Act is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (5) the following:

(6) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this

section, for the purpose of the commission's report in 2006, the commission

shall divide the Labrador portion of the province into 4 proposed districts and

shall describe the boundaries of those districts in such a manner that the

proposed new districts conform as closely as practicable to the present

districts.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer