Local Government: Municipal Electoral Amendment Act 14 of 2010

The Local Government: Municipal Electoral Amendment Act 14 of 2010 aims:

• to amend the Local Government: Municipal Electoral Act, 2000, so as:
  • to supplement promions relating to the election timetable and insert a related Schedule to the Act;
  • to amend provisions relating to nomination of candidates;
  • to provide for central payments of deposits by a party whicb contests election in more than one municipality;
  • to empower presiding ofticers to alter boundaries of voting stations, if necessary;
  • to revise provisious relating to number of party agents at a voting station;
  • to clarify tbe rights and responsibilities relating to assistance to certain voters;
  • to provide for special votes and the procedure related thereto;
  • to enhance the powers and functioos of tbe Electoral Commission and the Electoral Court in relation to the determination and declaration of tbe result of an election; 
  • to provide for further regulation of objections material to the result of an election; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

Commencement

28 February 2011 (Gazette 34049 of 25 February 2011)