Second Session, Thirty-Ninth Legislature
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Bill 242
THE ELECTORAL DIVISIONS AMENDMENT ACT (POPULATION VARIANCES FOR SOUTHERN RURAL CONSTITUENCIES)
Explanatory Note |
(Assented to )
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
The Electoral Divisions Act is amended by this Act.
Clause 11(3)(a) is replaced with the following:
(a) where the electoral division is situated wholly south of the 53rd parallel and has an area of less than 5,000 km2, be greater than 10% more or 10% less than the quotient obtained under section 9;
(a.1) where the electoral division is situated wholly south of the 53rd parallel and has an area equal to or exceeding 5,000 km2, be greater than 15% more or 15% less than the quotient obtained under section 9; and
This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.