Electoral Amendment Act 1953
Electoral Amendment Act 1953
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Electoral Amendment Act 1953
Electoral Amendment Act 1953
Public Act |
1953 No 101 |
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Date of assent |
26 November 1953 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Electoral Act 1927.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title and commencement.
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Electoral Amendment Act 1953, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Electoral Act 1927 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
(2)
This Act shall come into force on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-four.
2 Alterations of boundaries of Maori electoral districts to take effect on expiry of existing Parliament.
Section one hundred and eighty-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection five, and substituting the following subsection:
“(5)
Every Proclamation issued under this section shall have the force of law from its date, but shall not come into effect until the expiry of the then existing Parliament.”
3 Electoral rights of members of Executive Council
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section twenty-nine, and substituting the following section:
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“(1)
For all the purposes of this Act a person appointed to the Executive Council shall be deemed, so long as he holds that office, to continue to reside in the electoral district of which he was registered as an elector at the time of his appointment (in this section referred to as the original district) notwithstanding his absence therefrom at the seat of Government or elsewhere, unless and until he makes application in the prescribed form to the Registrar of another electoral district, in which he has actually resided for not less than three months immediately preceding the date of his application, for registration as an elector of that other district.
“(2)
Upon being registered as an elector of the other district pursuant to an application as aforesaid the applicant shall cease to be entitled to continue to be registered under this section as an elector of the original district.”
4 Signing and witnessing of applications for registration, etc.
Section forty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection one, and substituting the following subsection:
“(1)
Every person making any application or declaration in respect of registration as an elector under this Act shall either sign or place his mark on the application or declaration in the presence of a witness, who must attest the execution, and must add to his signature his description and address.”
5 Time for nomination of candidates and return of writs.
Section one hundred and two of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:
(a)
By omitting from subsection two the word “ten”
and substituting the word “twenty”
:
(b)
By omitting from subsection two the word “seventeen”
, and substituting the word “twenty-seven”
:
(c)
By omitting from subsection four the word “forty”
, and substituting the word “fifty”
.
6 Duration of present Parliament extended to 6 November 1954.
1937, No. 18
Notwithstanding that by virtue of section two of the Electoral Amendment Act 1937, the House of Representatives as existing at the passing of this Act is due to expire on the fifteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, the said House shall, unless the General Assembly is sooner dissolved, continue until the sixth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-four.
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