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L-4.1 - Act respecting electoral lists

Section 26
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26. (Replaced).
R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 25; 1972, c. 6, s. 8; 1979, c. 56, s. 256.
26. (1)  Every returning-officer, during the first two months of each year, shall divide his electoral district into polling-subdivisions in such a way that each of them shall not contain more than three hundred electors nor exceed an area of eight miles in length by eight miles in width; he shall immediately prepare a list thereof indicating which subdivisions are urban and which are rural.
(2)  The returning-officer shall make the division in such a way that no more than two-fifths of the electors of a polling-subdivision are members of a single community even if, in order to do so, he has to exceed the number of three hundred electors.
(3)  Each polling-subdivision shall be bounded and described in a precise manner.
R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 25; 1972, c. 6, s. 8.
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