E-3.2 - Election Act

Section 490 Disposition versions

1985-06-20

490. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every person who, in preparing an electoral list, knowingly enters or causes to be entered on the list a name which should not be entered;

(2)  every person who, in preparing an electoral list, knowingly omits or causes to be omitted a name which should be entered on the list;

(3)  every person who makes an application to enter a name which he knows to be fictitious or to be that of a deceased person or of a person not qualified as an elector;

(4)  every person who makes an application for the striking off of the name of a person whom he knows to be qualified as an elector;

(5)  every person who, illegally and without right, counterfeits, manufactures, removes, uses, destroys, gives, sells or issues any badge to be used by the enumerators;

(6)  every person who, knowing that his name is entered on more than one electoral list, or on any electoral list although he is not qualified as an elector, does not take the necessary steps to have his name struck from any list on which it is wrongfully entered;

(7)  every owner or administrator of a multiple-dwelling immovable who limits, restricts or does not facilitate the access of his immovable to an enumerator or to a person responsible for the distribution of the electoral list;

(8)  every person appointed to act in a filing office who refuses or neglects to receive an application made to him or who refuses or neglects to transmit it to the returning officer;

(9)  every revisor who refuses or neglects to receive or to examine an application made or submitted to him;

(10)  every revisor who strikes off the name of a person from the electoral list without causing the notice prescribed in section 134 to be sent to him.

1984, c. 51, s. 490; 1985, c. 30, s. 145.

1985-03-13

490. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every person who, in preparing a list of electors, knowingly enters or causes to be entered on the list a name which should not be entered;

(2)  every person who, in preparing a list of electors, knowingly omits or causes to be omitted a name which should be entered on the list;

(3)  every person who makes an application to enter a name which he knows to be fictitious or to be that of a deceased person or of a person not qualified as an elector;

(4)  every person who makes an application for the striking off of the name of a person whom he knows to be qualified as an elector;

(5)  every person who, illegally and without right, counterfeits, manufactures, removes, uses, destroys, gives, sells or issues any badge to be used by the enumerators;

(6)  every person who, knowing that his name is entered on more than one list of electors, or on any list of electors although he is not qualified as an elector, does not take the necessary steps to have his name struck from any list on which it is wrongfully entered;

(7)  every owner or administrator of a multiple-dwelling immovable who limits, restricts or does not facilitate the access of his immovable to an enumerator or to a person responsible for the distribution of the list of electors;

(8)  every person appointed to act in a revision office who refuses or neglects to receive an application made to him or who refuses or neglects to transmit it to the returning officer;

(9)  every revisor who refuses or neglects to receive or to examine an application made or submitted to him;

(10)  every revisor who strikes off the name of a person from the list of electors without causing the notice prescribed in section 134 to be sent to him.

1984, c. 51, s. 490.