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ELECTORAL AMENDMENT ACT 2000 (NO. 36 OF 2000) - SECT 55

55 .         Section 156A amended and consequential amendments

        (1)         Section 156A(1) is amended by deleting the definition of “most recent election in the region” and inserting instead —


        "original election", in relation to a vacancy, means the full election in the region in respect of which the vacancy has occurred at which —

            (a)         the member in whose seat the vacancy has occurred; or

            (b)         in a case where the member in whose seat the vacancy has occurred was elected under sections 156C and 156D or under section 156E, the member who was the predecessor (whether immediate, intermediate, or original) of that member,

                was elected;

”.

        (2)         The provisions listed in the Table to this subsection are amended by deleting “most recent election in the region”, in each place where it occurs, and inserting instead —

                “ original election ”.

Table of provisions amended

s. 156A(1), paragraph (a) of the definition of “qualified person”

s. 156C(2)

s. 156D(4)

s. 156D(14)



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