Local Councils (Elections) (Amendment) Regulations, 2014

L.N. 157 of 2014

LOCAL COUNCILS ACT

(CAP. 363)

Local Councils (Elections) (Amendment) Regulations, 2014

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 72(1) of the Local

Councils Act, the Prime Minister and Minister responsible for Local

Government has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Local Councils

(Elections) (Amendment) Regulations, 2014, and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Local Councils

(Elections) Regulations, 1993, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

Regulation 48A of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a)

in sub-regulation (2) thereof for the words "in sub-

regulation (4)(a) and (b)" there shall be substituted the words

"in sub-regulation (4)(a), (b) and (c)";

(b) in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3) thereof for the

words "Gozo General Hospital." there shall be substituted the

words "Gozo General Hospital;" and immediately thereafter

there shall be added the following new paragraph

"(c) at such places designated for the casting of

votes by voters who are resident at retirement homes as

defined in regulation 48 on the Saturday prior to polling

day, as the Commission may, by notice in the Gazette

published within ten days from the publication of the writ

for the election, establish

Provided that the Commission shall,

wherever possible, designate as such mixed polling places

the retirement homes themselves

Provided further that for the purposes of this

paragraph every person who is resident in a retirement

home fourteen days before polling day shall be deemed to

be a resident at the retirement home

Provided further that regulation 51 shall

mutatis mutandis apply to mixed polling places designated

in terms of this paragraph.";

(c)

sub-regulation (4) thereof shall be amended as

(i) in paragraph (a) thereof for the words "seven

days" there shall be substituted the words "fourteen

days";

(ii) in paragraph (b) thereof for the words "three

days before polling" there shall be substituted the words

"four days before polling day";

(iii) paragraph (c) thereof shall be substituted by

the following

"(c) All the voters, as provided in paragraph

(c) of subregulation (3), who are resident at

retirement homes as defined in regulation 48 shall

vote at the place indicated in the same regulation and

the subcommittee established under regulation 49

shall be bound to determine who the voters shall be.

(d) Notwithstanding the other provisions of

these regulations

(i) voters who vote in a hospital in

accordance with sub-regulation (3)(b) shall

vote on the Thursday prior to polling day

between 7.00 am and 10.00 pm;

(ii)

voters -

(aa) who are residing at Saint

Vincent de Paule; or

(bb) who

are

residing

in

retirement homes as defined

in regulation 48 and who are

entitled to vote at such places

designated in accordance

with sub-regulation (3)(c),

shall vote on the Saturday prior to polling day

between 7.00 am and 10.00 pm."; and

(d) in sub-regulation (6) thereof the words "in the site

indicated in sub-regulation (3)(a)" there shall be substituted

the words "at the place indicated in sub-regulation (3)(a) and

(c)" and for the words "persons entitled to vote in the site

indicated in sub-regulation (3)(b)" there shall be substituted

the words "persons entitled to vote at the place indicated in

sub-regulation (3)(b)".

Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 50 of the principal

regulations shall be amended as follows

(a)

for the words "Within three days of the publication

of the Notice" there shall be substituted the words "Fourteen

days before polling day"; and

(b) in paragraph (a) thereof for the words "preceding

the election" there shall be substituted the words "preceding

the Thursday prior to polling day".

B

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