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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2021 No.

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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2021 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTIONS 1.

Short title………………………………………………………………………………………4 2.

Interpretation……………………………………………………………………………….......4 3.

Amendment of section 9 – Powers and duties of the Supervisor of Elections…………...……4 4.

Amendment of the Second Schedule – Registration Regulations……………………………...4 Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2021.

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I Assent, Rodney Williams, Governor-General.


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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2021 No.

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ENACTED by the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda as follows: 1.

Short title This Act may be cited as the Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2021.

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Interpretation In this Act— “Principal Act” means the Representation of the People Act, Cap.

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Amendment of section 9 - Powers and duties of the Supervisor of Elections The principal Act is amended in section 9 by repealing subsection (1C) and replacing it with the following new subsection— No.

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“(1C) Notwithstanding subsections (1A) and (1B) the age at which the Supervision of Elections shall vacate his office under section 67 of the Constitution is seventy five years”.

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Amendment of the Second Schedule – Registration Regulations The principal Act is amended in the Second Schedule by— (a) repealing regulation 17(2) and replacing it as follows: “(2) An objection shall be in the prescribed form and may be made by any registered elector for that constituency”; (b) (c) deleting the phrase “polling division” in regulation 23 and replacing it with the phrase “polling district”; and deleting the phrase “polling division” wherever it occurs in FORM I - Certificate of Registration and replacing it with the phrase “polling district”.
Passed by the House of Representatives on this 22nd day of June, 2021.

Passed by the Senate on this 24th day of June, 2021.

Gerald Watt, Q.C., Speaker.

Alincia Williams-Grant, President.

Rosemarie Smith-Weston, Acting Clerk to the House of Representatives.

Rosemarie Smith-Weston, Acting Clerk to the Senate.

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