1997 Legislative Session: 2nd Session, 36th Parliament
FIRST READING
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HONOURABLE UJJAL DOSANJH
ATTORNEY GENERAL AND MINISTER
RESPONSIBLE FOR MULTICULTURALISM,
HUMAN RIGHTS AND IMMIGRATION
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:
1 Section 4 (1) of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, S.B.C. 1989, c. 65, is repealed and the following substituted:
(1) The commission member who is a retired judge appointed under section 2 (a) and the commission member who is appointed under section 2 (b) may be paid the remuneration for his or her services on the commission in an amount prescribed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
2 Section 5 (1) is repealed and the following substituted:
(1) The first commission shall be appointed during the second session of the 36th Parliament.
Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, R.S.B.C. 1996
3 Section 4 (1) of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 107, is repealed and the following substituted:
(1) The commission member who is a retired judge appointed under section 2 (1) (a) and the commission member who is appointed under section 2 (1) (b) may be paid remuneration for his or her services on the commission in an amount prescribed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
4 Section 5 is repealed and the following substituted:
5 (1) The first commission must be appointed during the second session of the 36th Parliament.
(2) A new commission must be appointed during the first session of the Legislature following every second general election following the appointment of the first commission.
[Sections 3 and 4 of this bill amend the Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1996. The Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1996 come into force on April 21, 1997.]
SECTION 1: [Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, repeals and replaces section 4 (1)] amends section 4 to allow a retired judge appointed under section 2 (a) to be paid remuneration for his or her services on the commission.
SECTION 2: [Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, repeals and replaces section 5 (1)] amends section 5 to require the Legislature to appoint the first commission in the second session of the 36th Parliament.
Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, R.S.B.C. 1996
SECTIONS 3 and 4: [Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, repeal and replace sectin 4 (1) and re-enact section 5] are consequential to the re-enactment of the statutes of British Columbia in the form of the Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1996, which come into force on April 21, 1997. Sections 3 and 4 of the Bill make the same changes in the 1996 revision as sections 1 and 2 of the Bill make in the pre-revision version of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act.
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