Canada Elections Act (S.C. 2000, c. 9)

Marginal note:Distribution of lists

104.1 Each returning officer shall, on the 19th day before polling day, distribute to each candidate in the electoral district who requests it, one copy in electronic form of the most current preliminary lists of electors for that electoral district.

Marginal note:Revised list of electors

• 105. (1) Each returning officer shall, on the 11th day before polling day, prepare a revised list of electors for each polling division in the electoral district for use at the advance poll.

• Marginal note:Publication of revised lists

  (2) The Chief Electoral Officer shall, not later than the 7th day before polling day, determine the number of names appearing on the revised lists of electors for each electoral district and cause that information to be published in the Canada Gazette.

Marginal note:Official list of electors

106. Each returning officer shall, on the 3rd day before polling day, prepare the official list of electors for each polling division for use on polling day.

Marginal note:Form of lists

• 107. (1) The revised list of electors and official list of electors for each polling division shall be in the form established by the Chief Electoral Officer.

• Marginal note:Transmittal of list

  (2) Each returning officer shall deliver to each deputy returning officer the revised list of electors or official list of electors, as the case may be, that the deputy returning officer needs to conduct the vote in his or her respective advance polling station or polling station. The list shall indicate each elector’s sex and date of birth.

• Marginal note:Transmittal to candidates

  (3) Each returning officer shall deliver to each candidate a printed copy and a copy in electronic form of a version of the revised lists of electors and the official lists of electors that does not indicate an elector’s sex or date of birth.

• Marginal note:Extra copies

  (4) On the request of a candidate, the returning officer may provide a maximum of four additional printed copies of the revised lists of electors and the official lists of electors.

Marginal note:Merger of polling divisions

• 108. (1) After the end of the revision period, the returning officer may, with the prior approval of the Chief Electoral Officer, merge a polling division with an adjacent polling division in the same electoral district.

• Marginal note:Official list

  (2) The lists of electors for the merging polling divisions are deemed to be the official list of electors for the polling division that results from the merger.