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Local Government Act

Updated: June 2015

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Section 15 states:

Subject to section 16, a person shall be qualified to be elected as a Municipal City Councillor, Municipal Town Councillor or Village Councillor where he is –…

(b) able to speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, to read the English and French languages with a degree of proficiency sufficient to enable him to take an active part in the proceedings of the respective Council.

 

Section 16 states:

No person shall be qualified to be elected, or nominated, as a Municipal City Councillor, Municipal Town Councillor or Village Councillor or, having been so elected or nominated, shall sit or vote at a meeting of that authority where he...(f) has been adjudged to be of unsound mind…

 

Section 19, subsection 2 states:

No person shall be entitled to vote where, on the date fixed for polling, he is in lawful custody or, except insofar as may otherwise be prescribed, he is, for any other reason, unable to attend in person at the place and time fixed for polling.

 

Section 21 states:

No person shall be entitled to be registered as an elector at the election of a Municipal City Council, Municipal Town Council or Village Council where he …

(b) is a person adjudged to be of unsound mind…

 

Section 32 states:

At any meeting requiring to be chaired by a Senior Councillor, the Chief Executive shall, before the start of the meeting, designate –…

(b) where the Senior Councillor is, for any reason, unable or unwilling to preside the meeting, the next eligible and willing Councillor with the highest percentage of votes…

 

Excerpts from the Local Government Act (2011)

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Section 70, subsection 2 states:

The appropriate Chief Executive shall ensure that--…

(b) there is no unlawful discrimination against officers in the administration of the local authority on the ground of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, race, caste, opinion, physical or intellectual impairment, age or any other ground and that there is no other form of unjustifiable discrimination exercised against officers.

 

Excerpt from the Local Government Act (2011)

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Section 15 states:

Subject to section 16, a person shall be qualified to be elected as a Municipal City Councillor, Municipal Town Councillor or Village Councillor where he is –…

(b) able to speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, to read the English and French languages with a degree of proficiency sufficient to enable him to take an active part in the proceedings of the respective Council.

 

Section 16 states:

No person shall be qualified to be elected, or nominated, as a Municipal City Councillor, Municipal Town Councillor or Village Councillor or, having been so elected or nominated, shall sit or vote at a meeting of that authority where he...

(f) has been adjudged to be of unsound mind…

 

Section 32 states:

At any meeting requiring to be chaired by a Senior Councillor, the Chief Executive shall, before the start of the meeting, designate –…

(b) where the Senior Councillor is, for any reason, unable or unwilling to preside the meeting, the next eligible and willing Councillor with the highest percentage of votes…

 

Excerpts from the Local Government Act (2011)