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Municipal Elections Act (amended)

BILL NO. 8

1st Session, 58th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
48 Elizabeth II, 1999



Government Bill



Municipal Elections Act
(amended)



The Honourable Angus MacIsaac
Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs



First Reading: October 21, 1999

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading: November 1, 1999

Third Reading: November 9, 1999 (WITH COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS)

Explanatory Note

This Bill authorizes the use of the 1999 provincial election voters list for the 2000 municipal election.

An Act to Amend Chapter 300
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Municipal Elections Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Section 30 of Chapter 300 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Municipal Elections Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following subsection:

(1A) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the council may, by resolution, provide that the returning officer use for the regular election in 2000 the list of electors used in the provincial election held on the twenty-seventh day of July, 1999.


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