COMPLETION OF REPORT

Time within which report to be completed

  20. (1) Each commission shall, not later than one year after the receipt by the chairman from the Chief Electoral Officer of the copy of the return referred to in section 13, complete a report for presentation to the House of Commons setting out the considerations and proposals of the commission concerning the division of the province into electoral districts, the descriptions and boundaries of the districts and the population and name to be given to each district and, on the completion of the report, shall cause two certified copies thereof to be transmitted to the Chief Electoral Officer.

Extension of time

  (2) The Chief Electoral Officer may, on request by a commission, extend the time for the completion of its report for a further period or periods not exceeding six months in the aggregate.

R.S. 1985, c. E-3, s. 20; 1985, (2nd Supp.), c. 6, s. 4.

Report to be referred to committee

  21. (1) On receiving the certified copies referred to in section 20 of the report of any commission, the Chief Electoral Officer shall transmit one of the copies thereof to the Speaker who shall, subject to subsection (2), cause the copy to be laid before the House of Commons and referred to such committee of the House of Commons as it may establish for the purposes of dealing with electoral matters forthwith on receipt of the copy by the Speaker if Parliament is then sitting or, if Parliament is not then sitting, on any of the first five days next thereafter that Parliament is sitting.

Where report received during interval between sessions

  (2) Where the copy referred to in subsection (1) of the report of any commission for a province is received by the Speaker during an interval between two sessions of Parliament, the Speaker shall forthwith cause the copy to be published in the Canada Gazette and a copy of that Canada Gazette to be sent by mail to each of the members of the House of Commons representing electoral districts in that province.

R.S. 1985, c. E-3, s. 21; 1985, (2nd Supp.), c. 6, s. 5.

Procedure where objection filed with Standing Committee

  22. (1) If, within a period of thirty days from the day the copy of the report of any commission for a province is referred to the committee pursuant to subsection 21(1) or published pursuant to subsection 21(2), an objection in writing is filed with the clerk of the committee specifying the provisions of the report objected to and the reasons for the objection, the committee shall, within the first thirty days next after the expiration of that period that Parliament is sitting or within such greater period as the House of Commons may allow, take up the motion referred to in subsection (2), consider the matter of the objection and return the report to the Speaker together with a copy of the objection and of the minutes of proceedings of the committee with respect thereto.

Form of objection

  (2) An objection in writing under subsection (1) shall be in the form of a motion for consideration by the committee of the matter of the objection and signed by not less than ten members of the House of Commons.

Reference back for reconsideration by commission

  (3) The Speaker shall forthwith refer back to the Chief Electoral Officer the report returned to the Speaker under subsection (1) together with a copy of the objection and of the minutes of proceedings and evidence of the committee with respect thereto for reconsideration by the commission having regard to the objection.

R.S. 1985, c. E-3, s. 22; 1985, (2nd Supp.), c. 6, s. 6, (4th Supp.), c. 1, s. 23.

Reconsideration and disposition of objection by commission concerned

  23. (1) Within thirty days after the day the report of any commission is referred back to the Chief Electoral Officer by the Speaker pursuant to section 22, the commission shall consider the matter of the objection and dispose of the objection, and, forthwith on the disposition of the objection, a certified copy of the report of the commission, with or without amendment accordingly as the disposition of the objection requires, shall be returned by the Chief Electoral Officer to the Speaker.

Application of section 21

  (2) Section 21 applies, with such modifications as the circumstances require, in respect of any copy of a report returned to the Speaker pursuant to this section.

R.S. 1970, c. E-2, s. 21; 1978-79, c. 13, s. 26.

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