Full text: The Constitution of Canada

QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS. 127 
with the Governor-General. The Judges therefore of the 
Supreme Court of Canada, of the Superior, District and 
County Courts of the provinces cannot vote. 
2. Revising officers, returning officers and election 2. Election 
clerks for the electoral district for which they hold their Slory, 
office, but deputy returning officers, poll clerks and constables 
may vote’, 
3. Any person employed for money at time of election 3. Paid 
, . . election 
except the returning officer in case of an equality of votes, gents. 
when he may give a casting vote. 
4. Indians (a) in Manitoba, British Columbia, 4. Indians. 
Keewatin and North-West Territories, (b) in the other 
provinces who do not fulfil the conditions above re- 
ferred to. 
5. Persons of Mongolian or Chinese race > 5. Chinese. 
6. Persons found guilty of corrupt practices at elections. 6. Persons 
Their disqualification lasts for eight years® gay 2 
practices. 
The Governor-General appoints revising officers to revise Revision 
the list of voters every year. A preliminary revision is held 3 Yar 
in June, and the corrected lists are required to be printed 
and published before the 1st September. Within five weeks 
the final revision takes place, when objections are heard and 
examined, and the list as finally revised is certified and a 
duplicate sent to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery at 
Ottawa before the 1st of November *, 
If the revising officer be not a Judge an appeal lies 
from his decision. In Quebec the appeal is to the Judge 
of the Superior Court resident in or having charge of the 
judicial district in which the polling district in respect of 
which the appeal arises is situate. 
1 49 and 50 Vie, ¢. 6, 8. 1. 
2 Ih. ¢. 5, 8. 2. 
4 R, 8, C. ec. 5, ss. 11—32, 
3 Ib. ec. 8, 8. 98,
	        
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