TONGA

ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT 2000

Act 10 of 2000

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ELECTORAL ACT 1989

I assent,

TAUFA'AHAU TUPOU IV,
7th September, 2000

[22nd August, 2000]

BE IT ENACTED by the King and Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the Legislature of the Kingdom as follows: -

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2000. 
	
	(2) The Electoral Act 1989, as amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. 

2. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following subsection (8): 

"(8) For the purposes of this section, the word "election" does not include a by-election."

3. The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following new section after section 5: 

"5A. The roll to be used in a by-election in any district, shall be the roll used in the last election for that district."

Passed by the Legislative Assembly this 22 day of August, 2000.

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