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ELECTORAL COMMISSION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2012

Act No. 13 of 2012

Arrangement of Sections

Section

1 Short Title
2 Section 4(1) amended – Members of the Commission

ELECTORAL COMMISSION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2012

Act No. 13 of 2012

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION ACT

I assent,
GEORGE TUPOU VI,
17th September 2012.

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

1 Short Title

(1) This Act may be cited as the Electoral Commission (Amendment) Act 2012.

(2) The Electoral Commission Act, as amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

2 Section 4(1) amended – Members of the Commission

Section 4(1)(c) of the Principal Act is amended by deleting the words "Auditor General" and substituting it with the words "a person appointed by the King for such term as he may deem fit". 

Passed by the Legislative Assembly on this 3rd day of September 2012.