E-3.3 - Election Act

Section 40.9 Disposition versions

1998-10-21

40.9. The name of every person of full age having informed the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec that he has acquired Canadian citizenship, having registered with the Régie for the first time as a Canadian citizen or having been identified by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration of Canada as a new Canadian citizen shall be entered on the permanent list of electors by the Chief Electoral Officer. The Chief Electoral Officer shall notify the elector in writing that his name has been entered on the permanent list of electors, requesting the elector to correct or complete the information which concerns him, where required.

If the notice is returned to the Chief Electoral Officer without having reached the addressee or if the Chief Electoral Officer is notified by the person that he cannot or does not wish to be entered on the permanent list of electors, the person’s name shall be struck off the list.

1995, c. 23, s. 12; 1998, c. 52, s. 2; 1999, c. 89, s. 53.

1996-05-01

40.9. Before entering the name of a new elector, otherwise than at the request of the elector or following an enumeration, revision or other verification under this Act or the Referendum Act (chapter C-64.1), the chief electoral officer shall inquire, in writing, whether the elector wishes to have his name entered.

Every elector who wishes to have his name entered must confirm, correct or complete the information concerning him and join two documents of the type determined by the chief electoral officer in support of the information he transmits.

1995, c. 23, s. 12.