Under the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act, each province has a three-person commission responsible for modifying that province's federal ridings.

Members of the Human Rights Commission, the Constituency Boundaries Commission, the Electoral Commission, the Parliamentary Emoluments Commission, the Commission on the Prerogative of Mercy, the Constitutional Offices Commission, and the Disciplined Services Commission are appointed for 2-year terms ; they may be reappointed for one further 2-year term, but are not eligible for further reappointment.

The Court held that, in transferring certain parts of parishes from the riding of Acadie – Bathurst to Miramichi, the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for New Brunswick erred in its application of the rules governing the preparation of its recommendations.

New commissions are set up every ten years to make any necessary revisions to existing boundaries, following criteria defined in the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act.

The Court held that, in transferring certain parts of parishes from the riding of Acadie – Bathurst to Miramichi, the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for New Brunswick erred in its application of the rules governing the preparation of its recommendations.

Electoral boundary changes come from the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission made up of five appointed members, who go and collect input from local residents, politicians and draw up the divisions based on enumeration and census data.

Prior to the 26th general election, the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission was given the task of re-distributing the province's electoral divisions.

The VEC assists the Electoral Boundaries Commission in redistributing state electoral boundaries from time to time.

In the 2009 Electoral Boundaries redistribution announced by the Australian Electoral Commission the seat of Brisbane also includes the suburbs of Hendra, Ascot and Hamilton.

Elections in Barbados are the responsibility of the Electoral and Boundaries Commission ( E & BC ) The E & BC is an independent body under the Prime Minister's Office ( in his or her capacity as Minister of Finance.

* Electoral Designs: Representation, Proportionality and Constituency Boundaries in Sudan's 2010 Elections

The Electoral Boundaries Commission, reporting in February 2006, suggested an additional 26 Open electorates be created.

Under the 2006 Electoral Boundaries, it was transferred to Aljunied GRC.

The BC Electoral Boundaries Commission will hold hearings in 2006-7 and make recommendations for new boundaries under both the current single member plurality ( SMP ) electoral system and the BC single transferable vote ( BC-STV ) system.

According to the current proposed new electoral boundaries set out by the 2012 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for British Columbia, the riding will be dissolved, with various parts joining the new ridings of Burnaby South — Deer Lake, New Westminster — Burnaby East and Richmond East.

Though the Electoral Boundaries Commission did not recommend a name change, the Legislative Assembly later decided to change the name by adding Saint-Sauveur to its name.

In 2006, its boundaries were restored to nearly its original configuration and though the Electoral Boundaries Commission did not recommend a name change, the legislature later took the decision to revert it to its original name as well.

British Columbia's two new electoral districts, as created by the Electoral Boundaries Commission, were Surrey Central and Vancouver Kingsway.

The Electoral Boundaries Commission which reported in 2008 was charged with drawing up new boundaries for both the single-member system and the proposed new BC-STV system.

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S. C. 1972, c. 4 paragraph 25 of the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act substitute the word: " HIGH PARK ", with the words: " HIGH PARK-HUMBER VALLEY " as the name of the district, with the same borders as the previously named one.

* June 9, 2005-The Electoral Boundaries and Representation Act is introduced in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.

Mass public support for the captured ' rebels ' in the colony's capital of Melbourne when they were placed on trial resulted in the introduction of the Electoral Act 1856, which mandated full white male suffrage for elections for the lower house in the Victorian parliament, the first instituted political democracy in Australia.

* 1856 – The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation ( the Electoral Act of 1856 ) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.

Under the Electoral Act 1997 a Constituency Commission is established following the publication of census figures every five years.

In 1990, the voting system was changed by the Electoral Amendment Act which introduced universal suffrage.

* 1893 – Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.

In 1858, the passage of the Electoral Act provided for the University to become a constituency for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as soon as there were 100 graduates with higher degrees.

* July 17 – Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral ( Compulsory Voting ) Act 1924.

The Electoral Administration Act 2006 removed Maundy Thursday as an excluded day on the electoral timetable-therefore an election can now be held on Maundy Thursday, prior to this elections were sometimes scheduled on the Tuesday before as an alternative.

The Electoral ( Amendment ) Act 2009 defines the Waterford constituency as " The county of Waterford, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Tipperary South ; and the city of Waterford .".

A candidate to become a Member of Parliament must be a British or Irish or Commonwealth citizen, must be over 18, and must not be a public official or officeholder, as set out in the schedule to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 ( this was a reduction in the lower age limit, as candidates needed to be 21 until the law came into effect in 2006 ).

In 1706 he proposed and negotiated the Union with Scotland and when the Elector of Hanover received the Garter, after the Act had passed for securing the Protestant Succession, he was appointed to carry the ensigns of the Order to the Electoral Court.

* The passing of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, creating the Electoral Commission to regulate elections and referendums and party spending to an extent.

However, statute ( Section 6 of the Electoral Act 1997 ) places a maximum size of five members on constituencies.

The Electoral ( Amendment ) Act 2011 provides that the number of members " shall be not less than 153 and not more than 160 ".

Later that same year the Oireachtas also enacted the Electoral ( Amendment ) Act 1927 ( No 21 of 1927 ).

Despite this increase in the potential maximum term of the Dáil to seven years, Section 7 of the Electoral ( Amendment ) Act 1927 remained in force under the new constitution, as it applied to the term of the Dáil.

The acceptance of five years as the maximum term for any single Dáil was reconfirmed by section 33 of the Electoral Act 1992, which states " The same Dáil shall not continue for a longer period than five years from the date of its first meeting.

The constituency lines were redrawn under the Electoral ( Amendment ) Act 1974 in an attempt to secure re-election for the sitting Fine Gael-Labour Party government in the 1977 election and Haughey represented Dublin Artane in 1977, this constituency was abolished in 1981 and most of Haughey's electoral area was moved into the reformed Dublin North – Central constituency which he served from 1981 until his retirement in 1992.

In response to this act of violence, the state introduced a second Public Safety Act, which introduced the death penalty and was widely unpopular with the public, and an Electoral Amendment Act which forced elected TDs to take the Oath of Allegiance.

The government replaced the first-past-the-post electoral system applying to both houses of the Federal Parliament under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1903 with a preferential system for the House of Representatives in 1918.

In Canberra, a group of Country Party Senators kept Gair occupied in their office, away from the President of the Senate ( to whom he needed to give his resignation ), drinking beer and eating prawns, until 6pm ( the Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that writs would be deemed to have been issued at 6pm irrespective of the time that they were actually issued ).

* Electoral Administration Act 2006

However, it was not on the platform of either the Stanley Bruce-led Nationalist / Country party coalition government or the Matthew Charlton-led Labor opposition to introduce this requirement ; rather, the initiative was taken by a backbench Tasmanian senator from the Nationalists, Herbert Payne, who introduced a Private Senator's Bill, the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1924, on 16 July 1924.

However, citizens who later enrol themselves are protected from prosecution for not enrolling in the previous years by section 101 ( 7 ) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.