District Councils Act 1862 (SA)

ANNO VICESIMO QUINTO ET VICESIMO SEXTO

VICTORIB REGINE.

A. D. 1862.

No. 8.

An Act to amend the " District Councils Act, 1858."

[Assented to, 21st October, 1862.

HEREAS it is expedient to amend the " District Councils Act, Preamble,

W 1858"-Be it therefore Enacted, by the Governor-in-Chief of

the Province of South Australia, with the advice ~ n d consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. No person shall be entitled to vote at any election for Coun- No erson shdl vote at efxtions ~ d e m his

cillor or Auditor, unless his name shall appear as a ratepayer on the , , , ,,,, in

last assessment-book for the district. assessment-book,

Councillor or Auditor, more than the necessary number of persons demanded, and elec- 2. I n case, at any nomination of candidates fox the office of ~ ), " $ ~ ~; ; ~ ~ ~ ~

shall be nominated, and a poll shall be demanded, the Chairman of tion t~ be by bauOt.

the meeting shall adjourn the proceedings to a day not more than a

Adelaide : Printed by authority, by W. C, Cox, Go~ernment Printer, Yictoria-wquare.

fortnight from the day of nomination, when the election shall be by

ballot, in manner for the time bcing appointed by law for regulating

the elections by ballot of Councillors or Auditors of District Councils.

3. Clauses 146, 147, and 148, of the District Councils Act, 1858, , ,$ Clauaee 146, 14'7, and o f n k ~ c t

shall no longer be applicable to election meetings. Councils A C ~, 1868,

no longer applicable

4. This Act, and, save SO far as repealed, the District Councils This and District to election meetings.

Act, 1858, shall be read together as one Act.	read together.
councils A C ~ to be

5. This Act may be cited as the IXstrict Councils Act, 1862. . Bhort title.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

D, DALY, Governor.

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