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Versions of s. 33(1)

E-2.01 — Canada Elections Act · 2 versions · View current text

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2019-06-13 to present available View Source
    BeforeAs appointingsoon revisingas agents,possible after the issue of the writ, a returning officer shall solicit names of persons suitable personsto be election officers from the candidates of registered parties whosethat endorsed candidates finished first and second in the last election in the electoral district and,or from the registered associations of those registered parties — or, if sufficientsuch namesa areregistered notparty providedhas byno thoseregistered partiesassociation withinin threethat dayselectoral after receipt of the request, the returning officer may solicit namesdistrict, from anythat otherregistered source.party.
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    As soon as possible after the issue of the writ, a returning officer shall solicit names of persons suitable to be election officers from the candidates of registered parties that endorsed candidates in the last election in the electoral district or from the registered associations of those registered parties — or, if such a registered party has no registered association in that electoral district, from that registered party.

  2. 2003-01-01 to 2019-06-13 View Source

    Before appointing revising agents, a returning officer shall solicit names of suitable persons from the registered parties whose candidates finished first and second in the last election in the electoral district and, if sufficient names are not provided by those parties within three days after receipt of the request, the returning officer may solicit names from any other source.