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Versions of s. 39(3)

E-2.01 — Canada Elections Act · 2 versions

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

  1. 2014-12-19 to 2019-06-13 View Source
    Before appointing registration officers, the returning officer shall solicit names of suitable persons from the candidates of the registered parties whose candidates finished first and second in the last election in the electoral district,district toor befrom submittedregistered toassociations of those registered parties or, if there are no registered associations, from those registered parties. If, by the returning officer no later than the 17th24th day before polling day. If, by that time,day, a sufficient number of names of suitable persons areis not provided by those candidates, registered associations or registered parties, the returning officer may solicit names from other sources.
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    Before appointing registration officers, the returning officer shall solicit names of suitable persons from the candidates of the registered parties whose candidates finished first and second in the last election in the electoral district or from registered associations of those registered parties or, if there are no registered associations, from those registered parties. If, by the 24th day before polling day, a sufficient number of names of suitable persons is not provided by those candidates, registered associations or registered parties, the returning officer may solicit names from other sources.

  2. 2003-01-01 to 2014-12-19 View Source

    Before appointing registration officers, the returning officer shall solicit names of suitable persons from the candidates of the registered parties whose candidates finished first and second in the last election in the electoral district, to be submitted to the returning officer no later than the 17th day before polling day. If, by that time, a sufficient number of names of suitable persons are not provided by those candidates, the returning officer may solicit names from other sources.