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3. - ONTARIO AND QUEBEC
81.- Repealed.
SUMMONING OF LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES
82.- The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and of Quebec shall from
Time to Time, in the Queen's Name, by Instrument under the Great Seal of the
Province, summon and call together the Legislative Assembly of the Province.
RESTRICTION ON ELECTION OF HOLDERS OF OFFICES
83.- Until the Legislature of Ontario or of Quebec otherwise
provides, a Person accepting or holding in Ontario or in Quebec any Office,
Commission, or Employment, permanent or temporary, at the Nomination of the
Lieutenant Governor, to which an annual Salary, or any Fee, Allowance,
Emolument, or Profit of any Kind or Amount whatever from the Province is
attached, shall not be eligible as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the
respective Province, not shall he sit or vote as such; but nothing in this
Section shall make ineligible any Person being a Member of the Executive
Council of the respective Province, or holding any of the following Offices,
that is to say, the Offices of Attorney General, Secretary and Registrar of the
Province, Treasurer of the Province, Commissioner of Crown Lands, and
Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works, and in Quebec Solicitor General,
or shall disqualify him to sit or vote in the House for which he is elected,
provided he is elected while holding such Office.
CONTINUANCE OF EXISTING ELECTION LAWS
84.- Until the legislatures of Ontario and Quebec respectively
otherwise provide, all Laws which at the Union are in force in those Provinces
respectively, 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 Assembly of Canada, the Qualifications or Disqualifications
of Voters, the Oaths to be taken by Voters, the Returning Officers, their
Powers and Duties, the Proceedings at Elections, the Periods during which such
Elections may be continued, and the Trial of controverted Elections and the
Proceedings incident thereto, the vacating of the Seats of Members and the
issuing and execution of new Writs in case of Seats vacated otherwise than by
Dissolution, - shall respectively apply to Elections of Members to serve in the
respective Legislative Assemblies of Ontario and Quebec.
Provided that, until the Legislature of Ontario otherwise provides, at any
Election for a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the District
of Algoma, in addition to Persons qualified by the law of the Province of
Canada to vote, every Male British Subject, aged Twenty-one Years or upwards,
being a Householder, shall have a Vote.
DURATION OF LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES
85.- Every Legislative Assembly of Ontario and every Legislative
Assembly of Quebec shall continue for Four Years from the Day of the Return of
the Writs for choosing the same (subject nevertheless to wither the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario or the Legislative Assembly of Quebec being sooner
dissolved by the Lieutenant Governor of the Province), and no longer.
YEARLY SESSION OF LEGISLATURE
86.- There shall be a Session of the Legislature of Ontario and of
that of Quebec once at least in every year, so that Twelve Months shall not
intervene between the last Sitting of the Legislature in each Province in one
Session and its first Sitting in the next Session.
SPEAKER, QUORUM, ETC.
87.- The following Provisions of this Act respecting the House of
Commons of Canada shall extend and apply to the Legislative Assemblies of
Ontario and Quebec, that is to say, - the Provisions relating to the Election
of a Speaker originally and on Vacancies, the Duties of the Speaker, the
Absence of the Speaker, the Quorum, and the Mode of voting, as if those
Provisions were here re-enacted and made applicable in Terms to each such
Legislative Assembly.
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