Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1939 (WA)

1939..1 Municipal Corporations. [No. 19.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

3° GEO. VI., No. MX.

No. 19 of 1939.

AN ACT to amend section one hundred and eleven

of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1906-1938.

[Assented to 16th November, 1939.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Municipal Corpora- Short tint

tions Act Amendment Act (No. 2), 1939, and shall be read as one with the Municipal Corporations Act, 1906- 1938 (No. 32 of 1906 as reprinted pursuant to the Amend- ments Incorporation Act, 1938), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2. Section one hundred and eleven of the principal Amendment of s. 111.

Act is amended by deleting paragraph (vii) from sub- section (4) and inserting in lieu thereof a new paragraph as follows :—

(vii) Where at any election more than two candi-

dates are required to be elected, the foregoing pro-

visions of this subsection shall apply until the first

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and second candidates have been declared elected as aforesaid, and thereafter the following additional provisions shall apply:

(a)

The ballot papers counted on the first prefer- ence count to the candidates already de- clared elected as aforesaid shall be distri- buted among the candidates then remaining next in order of the elector's preference on such ballot papers, and after such distribu- tion the number of votes thus given to each of such remaining candidates shall be again ascertained, and thereafter, according as the case may require, subparagraphs (b), (c), (d), and (e) of paragraph (vi) hereof shall apply and be applied until a third candi- date is declared by the returning officer duly elected ; and

(b)

Subparagraph (a) of this paragraph, with such adaptations as are necessary, shall apply and be applied in respect of each additional candidate required to be elected until all the candidates required to be elected have been declared duly elected.

Provided that a ballot paper on which a first preference for any elected candidate is marked shall be placed in the parcel of ballot papers of the remaining candidate next in order of the elector's preference.

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Principal	3. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be
Act as

amended. cited as the Municipal Corporations Act, 1906-1939.