L-4.1 - Act respecting electoral lists

Section 159 Disposition versions

1980-08-15

159. (Replaced).

R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 150; 1979, c. 56, s. 256.

1977-12-31

159. (1)  When receiving a nomination-paper, the returning-officer shall require the person filing it to make a statement on oath, according to form 38, establishing:

(a)  that he knows the signatories to such nomination-paper;

(b)  that they are electors entered or qualified to be entered on the electoral list of one of the polling-subdivisions of the electoral district concerned;

(c)  that they respectively affixed their signatures or marks, as the case may be, to the said nomination-paper;

(d)  that he knows the person nominated as a candidate and that such person signed his consent to the nomination;

(e)  that the candidate is being nominated for that electoral district alone.

(2)  When the nomination-paper is filed by more than one person, the returning-officer shall require one or more of such persons to make the statement provided for in subsection 1.

(3)  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, such oath may also be taken before a justice of the peace, a notary or a commissioner of the Superior Court.

(4)  Mention shall be made of the taking of such oath on the back of the nomination-paper.

R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 150.