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Christchurch Tramway Board Empowering Act 1937

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Christchurch Tramway Board authorized to adopt the system of voting at elections and polls in the Central Sub-district of the Christchurch Tramway District by the marking of a cross.

Christchurch Tramway Board Empowering Act 1937

Local Act		1937 No 7
Date of assent		30 November 1937

	Title
	Preamble
1	Short Title.
2	Christchurch Tramway Board authorized to adopt the system of voting at elections and polls in the Central Sub-district of the Christchurch Tramway District by the marking of a cross.

An Act to authorize the Christchurch Tramway Board to adopt the System of voting at Elections and Polls in the Central Sub-district of the Christchurch Tramway District by the marking of a Cross.

Preamble.

WHEREAS pursuant to section two of the Christchurch City Empowering Act, 1934, the Christchurch City Council has by resolution determined that at elections for Mayor and Councillors of the City of Christchurch and at polls taken by the Council the method of voting shall be by marking a cross in a square opposite to the name of the candidate for whom or the proposal for which the voter desires to vote and not by striking out the names of candidates or words of the proposal: And whereas the Christchurch Tramway District includes the whole of the City of Christchurch and the Central Sub-district of the Christchurch Tramway District is conterminous with the City of Christchurch: And whereas, in order to avoid as far as possible a dual system of voting in any one district, it is desirable to authorize the Christchurch Tramway Board to adopt for elections and polls in the Central Sub-district of the Christchurch Tramway District the method of voting by marking a cross instead of striking out names or words:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Christchurch Tramway Board Empowering Act, 1937.

2 Christchurch Tramway Board authorized to adopt the system of voting at elections and polls in the Central Sub-district of the Christchurch Tramway District by the marking of a cross.

(1)

While any such resolution of the Christchurch City Council remains in force, the Christchurch Tramway Board may, by resolution, determine that at all elections and polls held and taken by the said Board in the Central Sub-district of the Christchurch Tramway District the method of voting by the electors or ratepayers of the said Central Sub-district shall be as determined by such resolution of the Christchurch City Council.

(2)

While any such resolution of the Board remains in force—

(a)

The forms numbered five and six in the First Schedule to the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed not to have been repealed, and the voting-papers to be used at every election or poll to which such resolution of the Board applies shall be in such one of those forms as the case may require, instead of in the form numbered one or the form numbered two in the Schedule to the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1926:

Provided that every such voting-paper shall have a counterfoil, and shall have printed on the back thereof and on the counterfoil respectively the matter contained in the form numbered three in the Schedule to the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1926:

(b)

Section twenty-five of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, shall apply to any such election or poll as if it had not been amended by section eight of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1926.

Christchurch Tramway Board Empowering Act 1937