1903-04, c. 17.

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[12th March, 1909.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the " Provincial Elections Act Amend- Short title. ment Act, 1909."

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2. Paragraph (c) of section 10 of chapter 17 of the Statutes of Amends s. 10, para1903-04, being the "Provincial Elections Act," is hereby amended by Posting up of list striking out the words "last Monday in March and September," of applicants. where they occur therein, and by substituting therefor "first Monday in April and October."

3. Paragraph (d) of said section 10 is hereby amended by striking Amends s. 10, paraout the words "two months' notice," in the third line thereof, and by substituting therefor "one month's notice."

graph (d).
Notice of holding
Court of Revision.

4. Said section 10 is hereby amended by inserting after para- Amends s. 10. graph (d) the following paragraph:

"(dd.) It shall, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, Objections.
be competent to any elector or electors in such Electoral
District to object to the retention of any name or names on
the Register of Voters, or to the placing of any name or
names on such Register of persons claiming to vote as
aforesaid, on one or more of the following grounds:-That
the person objected to is dead; that he ceased for a period
of six months next before the holding of the Court to
reside in such Electoral District; that he is not, under the

Repeals and reenacts paragraph (e) of s. 10.

Hearing objections.

Striking off names.

Completion of Register of voters.

provisions of this Act, qualified to vote; that he was not so qualified to vote when his name was placed on the Register of Voters."

5. Paragraph (e) of said section 10 is hereby repealed, and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :

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"(e.) Upon the holding of such Court, it shall be the duty of such Registrar to hear and determine any or all objections against the retention of any name or names on the Register of Voters in any Electoral District, as settled at the previous Court of Revision, and on the said list of persons claiming to vote, as provided for in sub-section (b) hereof, provided notice of every objection, and the reason therefor, which may be in the Form B in the Schedule hereto, shall have been given to the Registrar by the person objecting thirty clear days previously to the holding of such Court, and that the Registrar shall have forwarded, twenty-one clear days before the holding of such Court, a notice, through the post office, addressed to the person objected to, at his last known place of residence, stating the fact of such objection, the ground thereof, and that the same will be heard at the holding of such Court. The Registrar shall post and keep up in his office notice of such objection within one week after the receipt thereof, and also publish for twenty-one days the names of all voters objected to in one or more newspapers circulating in said Electoral District:

"It shall be the duty of such Registrar, at the holding of the Court of Revision, to strike off the Register of Voters, and off the said list of persons claiming to vote, all names thereon of persons against whom objection has been taken, as above provided, unless the voter objected to, or some other Provincial voter on his behalf, satisfies the Registrar that the objections are not well founded; before striking off the name of any person for any of the above-named reasons, the Registrar shall, unless in case of death such death shall be registered under the "Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act," have given at least twenty-one clear days' notice of his intention to strike off such name, by posting a letter to that effect addressed to such elector at his last known residence:

"The Registrar, after said Court, shall forthwith make up the Register of Voters, which shall consist of the names on the last Register of Voters (if any) not struck off, and the names on such list of persons claiming to vote not struck off. The Registrar shall

certify to said Register of Voters, with any additions made thereto, under the provisions of section 4 of this Act, and it shall be the list to be used at any election which may take place before the next revision has been completed. The Registrar at such Court of Revision shall have the right to administer an oath to any person, and shall do so at the request of the objector, or of the person objected to, or his respective agent, and shall also, at like request, take notes of the evidence for use on appeal."

VICTORIA, b.C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, I.S.O., V.D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1909

[12th March, 1909.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

R. S., 1897, c. 74.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Explosives Storage Act, Amend- Short title. ment Act, 1909."

of gasoline constitutes receptacle a

2. Section 2 of chapter 74 of the "Revised Statutes, 1897," is Amends s. 2. hereby amended by inserting after the word "building," in the first Keeping 500 gallons line thereof, the words "tank or other structure," and by inserting after the word "keeping," in the third line of said section, the following: "any quantity of gasoline exceeding five hundred gallons, or used for storage or keeping."

powder magazine for purposes of Act.

3. This Act shall come into force on proclamation by the Commencement. Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, I. S. O., V. D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty

1909.