Full text : The Constitution of Canada

28 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

In the other provinces the appeal is to the Judge of the
County Court, but in British Columbia, if the electoral
district is not within the jurisdiction of a County Court, the
appeal is to a Judge of the Superior Court’.
Voters qualified to vote in respect of income can only be
registered and vote in the polling district in which they
reside: other voters are registered and vote where their
real property is situated, but if the property is partly in
one polling district and partly in another, they may be
reoistered and may vote in either district”

3. QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTED.

No property qualification is required of any member of
the House of Commons. He must be a subject of the Crown
by birth or naturalization’, and must not be disqualified by
law from sitting.
The following persons are so disqualified :
Members 1. Members of any provincial Legislative Council or
oki rovin- Tegislative Assembly® This disqualification is not found
liaments. ip the British North America Act, 1867, but has been
adopted not only by the Dominion Parliament but by the
Provincial Assemblies.
A member of the House on being appointed a member of
a Provincial Assembly or elected to a Provincial Assembly
vacates his seat in the House, unless the appointment or
election was without his consent, and provided (1) he does
not take his seat in the Provincial Council or Assembly, and
(2) he resigns such seat within ten days after being notified
of his election, or if not within the province, then within ten
days after his arrival there, and (8) gives notice to the
Speaker of the House of Commons that he has so resigned ®.

1 R, 8. C. ec. 5, ss. 33, 34, 2 48 and 49 Vie. c. 40, s. T.
3 R 9 (Cc. 8.8. 20. 4 Ib. c. 13,8. 1. 51b. 8. 8.
            
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