Marginal note:Manner of voting

127. An elector may vote

• (a) in person at a polling station on polling day;

• (b) in person at an advance polling station during the period provided for the advance poll; or

• (c) by means of a special ballot issued in accordance with Part 11.

Marginal note:Hours of voting

• 128. (1) The voting hours on polling day are

  • (a) from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., if the electoral district is in the Newfoundland, Atlantic or Central time zone;

  • (b) from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., if the electoral district is in the Eastern time zone;

  • (c) from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., if the electoral district is in the Mountain time zone; and

  • (d) from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., if the electoral district is in the Pacific time zone.

• Marginal note:Exception — Saskatchewan

  (2) Despite subsection (1), if polling day is during a time of the year when the rest of the country is observing daylight saving time, the voting hours in Saskatchewan are

  • (a) in the case of an electoral district in the Central time zone, from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; and

  • (b) in the case of an electoral district in the Mountain time zone, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Marginal note:Daylight-saving time

129. The Chief Electoral Officer may, if he or she considers it necessary, set the voting hours for the electoral district so that the opening and closing of its polls coincide with the opening and closing of the polls in other electoral districts in the same time zone.

Marginal note:When polls lie in two time zones

130. When more than one local time is observed in an electoral district, the returning officer shall, with the prior approval of the Chief Electoral Officer, determine one local time to be observed for every operation prescribed by this Act, and shall publish the hours in the Notice of Election referred to in section 62.

Marginal note:By-elections

131. If only one by-election is held or if more than one by-election is held on the same day and all of them are in the same time zone, the hours of voting are from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Marginal note:Consecutive hours for voting

• 132. (1) Every employee who is an elector is entitled, during voting hours on polling day, to have three consecutive hours for the purpose of casting his or her vote and, if his or her hours of work do not allow for those three consecutive hours, his or her employer shall allow the time for voting that is necessary to provide those three consecutive hours.

• Marginal note:Time at convenience of employer

  (2) The time that the employer shall allow for voting under subsection (1) is at the convenience of the employer.

• Marginal note:Transportation companies

  (3) This section and section 133 do not apply to an employee of a company that transports goods or passengers by land, air or water who is employed outside his or her polling division in the operation of a means of transportation, if the additional time referred to in subsection (1) cannot be allowed without interfering with the transportation service.