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Electoral Amendment Act 1991

COOK ISLANDS

ELECTORAL AMENDMENT ACT 1991

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title and Commencement
2. New Constituency
3. Schedule Amended

1991, No. 22

An Act to amend the Electoral Act 1966

(19 Aug 1991

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. Short Title and Commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Electoral Amendment Act 1991 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Electoral Act 1966 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

(2) This Act shall come into force on a date to be appointed by the Minister and notified by publication in the Gazette.

2. New Constituency

(1) The figure "24" in the first paragraph of subsection 5(1) of the principal Act is deleted and replaced by the figure "25".

(2) Subsection 5(1) of the principal Act is amended by adding thereto the following new paragraph:

"(y) the Akaoa constituency, comprising the area described in Part II of the said First Schedule to the Constitution."

3. Schedule Amended

(1) The Second Schedule to the principal Act is amended by inserting the following description between the description of the Murienua constituency and the description of the Ruaau constituency:

"AKAOA CONSTITUENCY
All that area of the Arorangi Survey District in the Island of Rarotonga, comprising the Tapere of Akroa and the Tapere of Vaiakura, as delineated on the said plan S.O. 1002."

(2) The Second Schedule to the principal Act is further amended by deleting the description of the Murienua constituency and substituting thereto the following description:

"MURIENUA CONSTITUENCY
All that area of the Arorangi Survey District in the Island of Rarotonga, comprising the Tapere of Kavera, the Tapere of Aroa, and the Tapere of Rutaki as delineated on the said plan S.O. 1002."

This Act is administered by the Chief Electoral Officer

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Government, by T. KAPI, Government Printer - 1991.