ONTARIO REGULATION 429/00

made under the

Municipal Elections Act, 1996

Made: July 7, 2000
Filed: July 7, 2000

Transition — Municipal Questions for the 2000 Regular Election

1. For the purposes of the 2000 regular election,

(a) clause 8.1 (1) (a) of the Act shall be read as if the reference to “180 days” was a reference to “104 days”;

(b) subsection 8.1 (4) of the Act shall be read as if the reference to “15 days” was a reference to “10 days”;

(c) subsection 8.1 (6) of the Act shall be read as if the reference to “20 days” was a reference to “15 days”;

(d) subsection 8.1 (7) of the Act shall be read as if the reference to “15 days” was a reference to “10 days”;

(e) subsection 8.1 (9) of the Act shall be read as if the reference to “60 days” was a reference to “36 days”.

2. (1) If a municipality has passed or has purported to pass a by–law to submit a question to its electors at the 2000 regular election before this Regulation comes into force, the municipality is deemed to have passed the by–law under clause 8 (1) (b) or (c) of the Act, as the case may be, on the day this Regulation comes into force and the Act, except subsection 8.1 (3), applies to the by–law for all purposes.

(2) Subsection (1) only applies to a by–law if the by–law is authorized under clause 8 (1) (b) or (c) of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 on the day this Regulation comes into force.

3. For the purposes of the 2000 regular election, The Corporation of the Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands (to be created on January 1, 2001 by minister’s order dated February 10, 2000) shall be deemed to be a municipality to which Ontario Regulation 347/00 applies.

Tony Clement

Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing

Dated on July 7, 2000.