Bill C-210: An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (voting age)

Short Title Short title 1 This Act may be cited as the Right to Vote at 16 Act . 2000, c. 9 Canada Elections Act 2 The definition future elector in subsection 2(1) of the Canada Elections Act is replaced by the following: future elector  means a Canadian citizen who is 14 years of age or older but under 16 years of age. ( futur électeur ) 3 Section 3 of the Act is replaced by the following: Persons qualified as electors 3 Every person who is a Canadian citizen and is 16 years of age or older on polling day is qualified as an elector. 4 Subsection 22(5) of the Act is repealed. 5 (1) Subparagraph 281.3(a)(ii) of the Act is replaced by the following: (ii) is not 16 years of age or older — or will not be 16 years of age or older — on polling day; or (2) Subparagraph 281.3(b)(ii) of the Act is replaced by the following: (ii) is not 16 years of age or older — or will not be 16 years of age or older — on polling day. 6 Paragraph 549.1(1)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following: (b) the elector is 16 years of age or older or will be 16 years of age or older on polling day; Coming into Force Six months after royal assent 7 This Act comes into force on the day that, in the sixth month after the month in which it receives royal assent, has the same calendar number as the day on which it receives royal assent — or, if that sixth month has no day with that number, the last day of that sixth month — unless, before then, the Chief Electoral Officer publishes a notice in the  Canada Gazette that the necessary preparations for the bringing into operation of this Act have been made and that it may come into force accordingly, in which case it comes into force on the day on which the notice is published.