39. [Senators not to sit in House of Commons.] A Senator shall not be
capable of being elected or of sitting or voting as a Member of the
House of Commons.
40. [Electoral Districts of the Four Provinces.] Until the Parliament
of Canada otherwise provides, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New
Brunswick shall, for the Purposes of the Election of Members to serve in
the House of Commons, be divided into Electoral Districts as follows:
1.--ONTARIO.
Ontario shall be divided into the Counties, Ridings of Counties, Cities,
Parts of Cities, and Towns enumerated in the First Schedule to this Act,
each whereof shall be an Electoral District, each such District as
numbered in that Schedule being entitled to return One Member.
2.--QUEBEC.
Quebec shall be divided into Sixty-five Electoral Districts, composed
of the Sixty-five Electoral Divisions into which Lower Canada is at
the passing of this Act divided under Chapter Two of the Consolidated
Statutes of Canada, Chapter Seventy-five of the Consolidated Statutes
for Lower Canada, and the Act of the Province of Canada of the
Twenty-third Year of the Queen, Chapter One, or any other Act amending
the same in force at the Union, so that each such Electoral Division
shall be for the Purposes of this Act an Electoral District entitled
to return One Member.
3.--NOVA SCOTIA.
Each of the Eighteen Counties of Nova Scotia shall be an Electoral
District. The County of Halifax shall be entitled to return Two Members,
and each of the other Counties One Member.
4.--NEW BRUNSWICK.
Each of the Fourteen Counties into which New Brunswick is divided,
including the City and County of St. John, shall be an Electoral
District; The City of St. John shall also be a separate Electoral
District. Each of those Fifteen Electoral Districts shall be entitled
to return One Member.
41. [Continuance of existing Election Laws until Parliament of Canada
otherwise provides.] Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides,
all Laws in force in the several Provinces at the Union relative to
the following Matters or any of them, namely,--the Qualifications and
Disqualifications of Persons to be elected or to sit or vote as Members
of the House of Assembly or Legislative Assembly in the several
Provinces, the Voters at Elections of such Members, the Oaths to be
taken by Voters, the Returning Officers, their Powers and Duties, the
Proceedings at Elections, the Periods during which Elections may be
continued, the Trial of controverted Elections, and Proceedings incident
thereto, the vacating of Seats of Members, and the Execution of new
Writs in case of Seats vacated otherwise than by Dissolution,--shall
respectively apply to Elections of Members to serve in the House of
Commons for the same several Provinces.
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