Bill 46 — Fourth Session, 18Th Legislature, 27 Elizabeth Ii the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 46 the Election Amendment Act, 1978 (No.2) (Legislature 18, Session 4)

L18 S4 4354

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1978 BILL 46 Fourth Session, 18th Legislature, 27 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 46 THE ELECTION AMENDMENT ACT, 1978 (NO.2) HON. MR. McCRAE First Reading ............................................ . Second Reading .......................................... . Committee of the Whole .................................. . Third Reading ........................................... . Royal Assent ............................................ . Printed by the Queen's Printer for the Province of Alberta, EDMONTON

Bill 46 BILL 46 1978 THE ELECTION AMENDMENT ACT, 1978 (No.2) (Assented to , 1978) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1 The Election Act is amended by this Act. 2

Section 3 is amended by adding the following ajier subsection (5):

(6) If a returning officer dies or refuses to act or is absent or incapacitated or unable from any cause to act, the Chief Electoral Officer, (

a) before a writ of election has been issued, or (

b) after a writ of election has been issued, if there is no election clerk for the electoral division in respect of which the returning officer was appointed, may appoint an acting returning officer to act in his stead, and an acting returning officer so appointed has the powers and shall perform the duties of the returning officer until the returning officer resumes his duties or a new returning officer is appointed. 3

Section 5 is amended (

a) by repealing subsection 2(

b) and subtituting the jollowing: (

b) in whose stead a returning officer or acting return ing officer has been appointed under subsection (1) or

section 3 (6), 1

Explanatory Notes 1 This Bill will amend

chapter 117 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1970. 2 Provides for the appointment of an acting returning officer. 3

Section 5 (2) and (3) presently read: (2) (fa writ has been issued to a person (

a) whose appointment is afterwards superseded, or (

b) in whose stead a returning officer has been appointed under subsection (I), a new writ may be issued or the new returning officer may act under the writ already issued as if the same had been addressed to him. 1

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b) in subsection (2) by adding "or acting returning officer" a.fier "new returning officer", and (

c) in subsection (3) by striking out "new appointment, but the" and substituting "new or acting appointment, but a". 4 This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to. 2

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J) The validity ql proceedings had or taken under the first appointment is not affected by the new appointment, but the new returning q{ficer may appoint a new election clerk or clerks as hereina.!fer provided and new deputy returning q{ficers, !fhe thinks fit, in the place q(the persons, !fany, appointed to such q{fices by the person previously named as returning q{ficer. Consequential to the amendment to

section 3. 2 Title: 1978 (18th, 4th) Bill 46, The Election Amendment Act, 1978 (No. 2)

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