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

Marginal note:Election officers who are designated to receive applications

• 97 (1) The returning officer, assistant returning officer and other election officers for an electoral district may receive applications for additions or corrections to, or deletions from, a preliminary list of electors or the Register of Electors for their electoral district.

• Marginal note:Applications for addition, correction or deletion

  (2) All applications referred to in subsection (1) that are received by election officers other than the returning officer or assistant returning officer shall, on completion, be presented to the returning officer or assistant returning officer for his or her approval.

Marginal note:Revision offices

98 The returning officer may open one or more offices for the revision of the preliminary lists of electors. The office or offices shall be in premises that are accessible to electors with a disability.

Marginal note:Revision — purpose

99 The returning officer and assistant returning officer for an electoral district shall revise the preliminary lists of electors for that electoral district by

• (a) adding the names of electors who were omitted from the lists;

• (b) correcting information respecting electors whose names are on the lists; and

• (c) deleting the names of persons whose names were incorrectly inserted on the lists.

Marginal note:Information in Register of Electors

99.1 The Chief Electoral Officer may, for the purpose of section 99, provide to the returning officer and assistant returning officer information contained in the Register of Electors.

Marginal note:Election officers to act in pairs

• 100 (1) Election officers shall act in pairs when they assist the returning officer or assistant returning officer in the revision of the preliminary lists of electors.

• Marginal note:Disagreement between election officers

  (2) In case of disagreement between members of a pair, the two election officers shall refer the matter to the returning officer or assistant returning officer for a decision and are bound by that decision.

Marginal note:Relevant elector information

• 101 (1) The returning officer or assistant returning officer may add the name of any elector to the preliminary list of electors if

  • (a) the elector completes the prescribed registration form, establishes that he or she should be included on the list and provides satisfactory proof of identity;

  • (b) another elector who lives at the same residence as the elector completes the prescribed registration form, establishes that the elector should be included on the list and provides satisfactory proof of identity in respect of that elector;

  • (c) another elector who does not live at the same residence as the elector completes the prescribed registration form for the elector, establishes that the elector should be included on the list and provides

    • (i) written authorization from the elector allowing the other elector to complete the form for him or her, and

    • (ii) satisfactory proof of identity in respect of both electors; or

  • (d) the elector, or another elector who lives at the same residence as the elector, completes the prescribed registration form, and makes the solemn declaration in the prescribed form, at their residence and in the presence of a pair of election officers assisting the returning officer or assistant returning officer in the revision of the preliminary lists of electors.

• Marginal note:Prescribed registration form

  (1.01) The prescribed registration form shall include a statement, to be signed by the elector who completes the form, that the elector whose name is to be added to the preliminary list of electors under subsection (1) is qualified as an elector.

• Marginal note:Addition of elector’s name

  (1.1) The returning officer or assistant returning officer may also add to the preliminary list of electors the name of any elector whose name is added to the Register of Electors after that list has been prepared.

• Marginal note:Exclusion from Register of Electors

  (2) An elector whose name is added to a preliminary list of electors under paragraph (1)(a) may request that his or her name not be included in the Register of Electors.

• Marginal note:Change of address

  (3) The previous address of an elector whose name is added to a preliminary list of electors under any of paragraphs (1)(a) to (d) and who has changed his or her address since being listed in the Register of Electors shall be provided and the elector’s name shall then be deleted from the Register of Electors in relation to the previous address.

• Marginal note:Deletion of name of elector

  (4) The returning officer or assistant returning officer may delete the name of a person from a preliminary list of electors if

  • (a) the person requests it and provides satisfactory proof of identity;

  • (b) it is established that the elector is deceased;

  • (c) it is established that the information provided in respect of the elector is not valid; or

  • (d) it is established that the elector no longer resides at the address indicated on the list.

• Marginal note:Corrections

  (5) The returning officer or assistant returning officer may approve corrections to the information, in respect of an elector, on a preliminary list of electors if

  • (a) the elector has requested the correction under subsection 97(1); or

  • (b) there is an omission, inaccuracy or error.

• Marginal note:Address change within electoral district

  (6) An elector who changes his or her address within an electoral district may, by telephone or otherwise, on providing satisfactory proof of identity and residence to one of the election officers mentioned in subsection 97(1), apply to have the relevant corrections made to the appropriate preliminary list of electors. Another elector who lives at the same residence as the elector in question, on providing satisfactory proof of identity and residence in respect of the elector in question, may apply to have the relevant corrections made to that list in respect of the elector in question.

Marginal note:Notice of confirmation of registration

102 Each returning officer shall, as early as possible during the revision period but not later than the 5th day before polling day, send a notice of confirmation of registration that contains the information described in subsections 95(2) and (3) to every elector whose name has been added to a preliminary list of electors during the revision period, except electors referred to in subsection 95(1).

103 [Repealed, 2018, c. 31, s. 68]

104 [Repealed, 2018, c. 31, s. 68]

Updated Preliminary Lists of Electors

Marginal note:Lists to candidates

104.1 Each returning officer shall, on the 19th day before polling day, make available the most current preliminary lists of electors for his or her electoral district to each candidate in the electoral district who requests them.

Marginal note:Lists to registered parties

104.2 The Chief Electoral Officer shall, on the 19th day before polling day, make available in electronic form or in formats that include electronic form the most current preliminary lists of electors for each electoral district to each registered party that has endorsed a candidate in that electoral district and that requests them.

Revised Lists of Electors and Official Lists of Electors

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, without delay after the 7th day before polling day but no later than the 3rd day before polling day, prepare the official list of electors for each polling station for use on polling day.

Marginal note:Form of lists

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

• Marginal note:Lists to election officers

  (2) Each returning officer shall make available to election officers the revised list of electors or official list of electors, as the case may be, that the election officers need to conduct the vote in the advance polling station or polling station to which they are assigned. The list shall indicate each elector’s year of birth.

• Marginal note:Lists to candidates

  (3) Each returning officer shall make available to each candidate a version of the revised lists of electors and the official lists of electors that does not indicate an elector’s year of birth.

• Marginal note:Lists to registered parties

  (4) The Chief Electoral Officer shall make available in electronic form or in formats that include electronic form, for each electoral district, a version of the revised lists of electors and the official lists of electors that does not indicate an elector’s year of birth to each registered party that has endorsed a candidate in that electoral district.

Merger of Polling Divisions

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.

• (2) [Repealed, 2018, c. 31, s. 71]

Final Lists of Electors

Marginal note:Final list of electors

• 109 (1) The Chief Electoral Officer shall, without delay after polling day, prepare final lists of electors for each electoral district.

• Marginal note:Lists to member and parties

  (2) The Chief Electoral Officer shall make available in electronic form, or in formats that include electronic form, the final lists of electors for each electoral district to each registered party that has endorsed a candidate in the electoral district and to the member who was elected for the electoral district in the last election.

• (3) [Repealed, 2018, c. 31, s. 72]