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L-4.1 - Act respecting electoral lists
Section 49
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49. (Replaced).
49. The following shall not be entered on an electoral list nor shall they vote:
(a) the director general of elections, the acting director general, his assistants, the director general of the financing of political parties, his assistants, the returning-officer except when there is a tie-vote and he has to give a casting vote, the election-clerk, any assistant election-clerk and the revisors of urban polling-subdivisions;
(b) persons who have taken an oath of allegiance to a foreign power or have become naturalized elsewhere;
(c) persons declared disqualified from voting by the Assemblée nationale, or against whom a judgment or sentence entailing disqualification from voting has been rendered by a competent court, so long as such disqualification lasts;
(d) persons whom a competent court has found guilty of an infraction or crime punishable by two years’ imprisonment or more and who have not fully served the sentence pronounced against them;
(e) interdicted persons and persons in close treatment pursuant to the Mental Patients Protection Act (chapter P-41).
49. The following shall not be entered on an electoral list nor shall they vote:
(a) the director general of elections, the acting director general, his assistants, the director general of the financing of political parties, his assistants, the returning-officer except when there is a tie-vote and he has to give a casting vote, the election-clerk, any assistant election-clerk and the revisors of urban polling-subdivisions;
(b) persons who have taken an oath of allegiance to a foreign power or have become naturalized elsewhere;
(c) persons declared disqualified from voting by the Assemblée nationale, or against whom a judgment or sentence entailing disqualification from voting has been rendered by a competent court, so long as such disqualification lasts;
(d) persons whom a competent court has found guilty of an infraction or crime punishable by two years’ imprisonment or more and who have not fully served the sentence pronounced against them;
(e) interdicted persons and persons in close treatment pursuant to the Mental Patients Protection Act, and persons restricted in their freedom of movement by reason of mental illness or deprived of the administration of their property by reason of mental illness.
49. The following shall not be entered on an electoral list nor shall they vote:
(a) the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal or the Superior Court, the judges of the sessions, the judges of the Provincial Court, the judges of the Social Welfare Court, municipal judges, the Public Protector, any permanent Attorney-General’s prosecutor, the director general of financing of political parties, the director general of elections, the acting director general of elections, the deputy directors, the returning-officier except when there is a tie-vote and he has to give a casting vote, the election-clerk, any assistant election-clerk and the revisors of urban polling-subdivisions;
(b) persons who have taken an oath of allegiance to a foreign power or have become naturalized elsewhere;
(c) persons declared disqualified from voting by the Assemblée nationale, or against whom a judgment or sentence entailing disqualification from voting has been rendered by a competent court, so long as such disqualification lasts;
(d) persons whom a competent court has found guilty of an infraction or crime punishable by two years’ imprisonment or more and who have not fully served the sentence pronounced against them;
(e) interdicted persons and persons in close treatment pursuant to the Mental Patients Protection Act, and persons restricted in their freedom of movement by reason of mental illness or deprived of the administration of their property by reason of mental illness.
49. The following shall not be entered on an electoral list nor shall they vote:
(a) the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal or the Superior Court, the judges of the sessions, the judges of the Provincial Court, the judges of the Social Welfare Court, municipal judges, the Public Protector, any permanent Attorney-General’s prosecutor, the director general of elections, the acting director, the deputy directors, the returning-officer except when there is a tie-vote and he has to give a casting vote, the election-clerk, any assistant election-clerk and the revisors of urban polling-subdivisions;
(b) persons who have taken an oath of allegiance to a foreign power or have become naturalized elsewhere;
(c) persons declared disqualified from voting by the Assemblée nationale, or against whom a judgment or sentence entailing disqualification from voting has been rendered by a competent court, so long as such disqualification lasts;
(d) persons whom a competent court has found guilty of an infraction or crime punishable by two years’ imprisonment or more and who have not fully served the sentence pronounced against them;
(e) interdicted persons and persons in close treatment pursuant to the Mental Patients Protection Act, and persons restricted in their freedom of movement by reason of mental illness or deprived of the administration of their property by reason of mental illness.
