BILL 19

An Act to Amend the Political Process Financing Act

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, enacts as follows:

1 Section 23 of the Political Process Financing Act, chapter P-9.3 of the Acts of New Brunswick, 1978, is repealed and the following is substituted:

Reimbursement and attendance allowance

23 Members of the Advisory Committee other than the Supervisor shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their duties and shall receive the same attendance allowance for each meeting of the Committee as that prescribed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council for members of the advisory committee established under section 154 of the Elections Act.

2 Section 80 of the Act is repealed and the following is substituted:

80(1) Immediately after the preliminary lists of electors are prepared for an electoral district, the Chief Electoral Officer shall prepare a statement setting out the total number of electors entered on the lists for that electoral district and shall provide a copy of the statement to the official agent of each candidate in the electoral district.

80(2) For the purposes of sections 77 and 78, the number of electors in an electoral district shall be deemed to be the number set out in a statement prepared in accordance with subsection (1).

80(3) During a general election, the Chief Electoral Officer shall determine the total number of electors entered on preliminary lists of electors in the Province from the statements prepared in accordance with subsection (1) and shall prepare a certificate of that number, which he or she shall publish in The Royal Gazette after copies of it have been filed with the chief agent of each registered political party.