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Third Session, 46th General Assembly

59 Elizabeth II, 2010

BILL 43

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 1999

Received and Read the First Time...................................................................................................

Second Reading.................................................................................................................................

Committee............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading.....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE KEVIN O'BRIEN

Minister of Municipal Affairs

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Municipalities Act, 1999 to permit, where a town is first constituted, the variation of the ratio of ward councillors to at large councillors. The amendment would also permit only ward councillors to be elected. These provisions would apply only for the election of the first council.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 1999

Analysis


        1.   S.14 Amdt.
Wards


Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1999 cM-24
as amended

        1. Section 14 of the Municipalities Act, 1999 is amended by adding immediately after subsection (4) the following:

             (5)  Notwithstanding subsection (4), where a town is first constituted, the minister may

             (a)  fix a number of councillors to be elected for each ward that results in the total number of councillors elected for the wards being equal to or exceeding the number of councillors elected at large; or

             (b)  direct that all the councillors to be elected shall represent wards.

             (6)  At least 6 months before the next scheduled election under section 5 of the Municipal Elections Act, the town council of a town where

             (a)  the total number of councillors elected for the wards at the previous election was equal to or exceeded the number of councillors elected at large; or

             (b)  all the councillors elected were for wards,

shall comply with subsection (4) for the purpose of the next and subsequent scheduled elections.

             (7)  Where a town council does not comply with subsection (6), the minister may fix the number of councillors as if the minister were the council.