Fourth Session, Thirty-Ninth Legislature

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Bill 229

THE ELECTIONS AMENDMENT ACT

(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. E30 amended

1

The Elections Act is amended by this Act.

2

Subsection 22(2) is repealed.

3

Section 23 is replaced with the following:

Appointing chief electoral officer

23

The chief electoral officer must be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council

(a) on the recommendation of the Standing Committee on Legislative Affairs; and

(b) following a resolution of the Assembly carried by a vote of more than two-thirds of the members voting.

Coming into force

4

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