Third Session, Thirty-Ninth Legislature

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Bill 37

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AMENDMENT ACT (LIMITED AT LARGE ELECTIONS OF TRUSTEES)

(Assented to                                         )

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. P250 amended

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The Public Schools Act is amended by this Act.

2

The following is added before clause 57(1)(e):

(d.1) subject to section 57.1, abolish the existing wards and establish the number of trustees to be elected at large, which must be not fewer than five or more than nine;

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The following is added after section 57:

Restriction re at large elections

57.1

A school board may pass a by-law under clause 57(1)(d.1) only if

(a) at the 1998 general election held for the school division or school district, trustees were elected at large; and

(b) at the next general election, all the members of a municipal council that are to be elected by the eligible voters within the school division or school district are to be elected at large.

Coming into force

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This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.