E-3.3 - Election Act

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387. The judge shall give at least one clear day’s notice in writing to the Chief Electoral Officer and to the candidates of the day, time and place at which he will proceed to a recount of the votes.
The judge shall summon the returning officer and his assistant, and order the returning officer to bring the ballot boxes and the statement of the votes of his electoral division and, as the case may be, the copy of the statement of votes referred to in section 370.12. They must obey the summons.
If the judicial recount is in an electoral division in which mailed votes were counted, the Chief Electoral Officer brings every envelope referred to in section 370.10 that bears the name of that electoral division.
1989, c. 1, s. 387; 2006, c. 17, s. 27.
387. The judge shall give at least one clear day’s notice in writing to the chief electoral officer and to the candidates of the day, time and place at which he will proceed to a recount of the votes.
The judge shall summon the returning officer and his assistant, and order the returning officer to bring the ballot boxes and the statement of the votes of his electoral division and, as the case may be, the abstract of the statement of votes contemplated in section 285. They must obey the summons.
Where a judicial recount is applied for in an electoral division in which the votes of inmates or of electors outside Québec have been counted, the chief electoral officer shall bring every envelope contemplated in section 283 bearing the name of that electoral division.
1989, c. 1, s. 387.