Bill 110 (Legislature 13, Session 5)

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Alberta — Bills

No. 110 5th Session, 13th Legislature, Alberta 7 Elizabeth II, 1959 BILL 110 A Bill to Make Provision for Hospital Voting at Elections for Members of the Assembly in the Cities of Calgary and Edmonton HON. MR. COLBORNE Printed by L. S. ,V ALL, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, Alberta, 1959

Explanatory Note General. When and if

chapter 21 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1957, is proclaimed the present electoral divisions of Edmonton and Calgary will be converted into 16 separate electoral divisions. Consequently, hospital voting in these cities under

section 84 of The Election Act will be impossible in many cases under the existing requirements. This Bill will substitute new rules for such voting should the Act of 19'57 be proclaimed in force.

BILL No. 110 of 1959

An Act to Make Provision for Hospital Voting at Elections for Members of the Assembly in the Cities of Calgary and Edmonton (Assented to , 1959) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as tiThe Hospital Voting Act". 2. In this Act, (a) "Clerk" means Clerk of the Executive Council; (b) "electoral division" means any electoral division in the city of Calgary or city of Edmonton being (

i) the electoral division of Calgary Bowness, (ii) the electoral division of Calgary North, (iii) the electoral division of Calgary North-East, (iv) the electoral division of Calgary Centre, (

v) the electoral division of Calgary West, (vi) the electoral division of Calgary Glenmore, (vii) the electoral division of Calgary South-East, (viii) the electoral division of Edmonton Centre, (ix) the electoral division of Edmonton North-East, (

x) the electoral division of Edmonton Norwood, (xi) the electoral division of Edmonton North, (xii) the electoral division of Edmonton North:'West, (xiii) the electoral division of Strathcona East, (xiv) the electoral division of Strathcona Centre, (xv) the electoral division of Strathcona West, or (xvi) the electoral division of Jasper West; (c) "hospital" has the same meaning as is given that expression by subsection (4) of

section 84 of The Election Act. 3.

(1) Where it appears to the Clerk of the ~xecutive Council from information obtained from the superIntendent or other person having the charge of a hospital within the city of Calgary or the city of Edmonton that there are in the hospital at any time after nomination day and not later than the second day before polling day, not less than

2 ten patients resident in the city in which the hospital is situated who are entitled to vote at the election, the clerk shall forthwith notify the returning officer of the electoral division in which the hospital is situate that a poll will be required in that hospital for residents of other electoral divisions than the one for which the returning officer has been appointed.

(2) Where a poll will be required in a hospital in respect of more than one electoral division

section 84 of The Elec tion Act ceases to apply thereto, and the Clerk shall instruct the returning officer of the electoral division in which the hospital is situate to take a poll therein under the provisions of this Act.

(3) The instruction from the Clerk shall be by telegram or by letter and shall direct the returning officer to take a poll in the hospital specified and in the manner required pursuant to The Election Act with such change in pro cedure as may be required to comply with this Act. 4.

(1) The returning officer so instructed shall appoint one or more deputy returning officers and poll clerks as may be required to take a poll of the votes of the patients then being inmates of the hospital but of no other persons whomsoever.

(2) The returning officer shall fix a period on election day for the taking of the poll, and appoint the times at which the poll shall be opened and closed. 5. The deputy returning officer shall be supplied with lists of electors for each of the electoral divisions in the city in which the hospital is situate and sufficient ballot papers, ballot boxes and other election material to take a poll in respect of these electoral divisions. 6. During the time fixed for taking the poll, the deputy returning officer and poll clerk, acconlpanied by an officer of the hospital and by the representatives of the candidates, if any, (

a) shall attend with a single ballot box upon such electors as the superintendent or other person having charge of the hospital certifies to the deputy returning officer in writing under his hand to be bona fide patients in the hospital, and to be well enough to vote, and (

b) shall take the vote of any such elector who wishes to vote. 7.

(1) After the number of votes recorded for each candidate has been ascertained by the deputy returning officer after the close of the polls in the city and the counting of the ballot papers pursuant to

section 94 of The Election Act, the deputy returning officer shall make out a statement in triplicate in Form 37 in the First

Schedule to that Act

3 in respect of each electoral division for which ballot papers were received by him and shall, separately in respect of each such electoral division, do all such other things as are required by

section 95 of The Election Act.

(2) The deputy returning officer after locking and seal ing the ballot boxes shall enclose the keys in envelopes supplied for that purpose and as soon as possible there after shall personally deliver the ballot boxes and keys to the returning officers of the several electoral divisions for which he received ballot papers, and subsections (3) to (7) of

section 97 of The Election Act apply mutatis mutan dis to the delivery of the ballot boxes. 8. Every hospital at which a poll is taken under this Act is a polling place for each of the electoral divisions for which the poll is taken, and sections 66 and 68 to 97 of that Act apply mutatis mutandis and so far as the same are applicable, to the holding of a poll pursuant to this Act and all proceedings in connection therewith or inci dental thereto, except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act. 9. This Act shall be read with and construed as forming part of The Election Act. 10. This Act comes into force on the day upon which

chapter 21 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1957, being

An Act to amend The Election Act, comes into force.

No. 110 FIFTH SESSION THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE 7 ELIZABETH II 1959 BILL

An Act to Make Provision for Hos pital Voting at Elections for Mem bers of the Assembly in the Cities of Calgary and Edmonton Received and read the First time ... Second time ....................................... . Third time .............. . HON. MR. COLBORNE Title: 1959 (13th, 5th) Bill 110,

An Act to Make Provision for Hospital Voting at Elections for Members of the Assembly in the Cities of Calgary and Edmonton

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