Comment: Local Government: Municipal Electoral Amendment Bill [B27-2010]
Comment: Local Government: Municipal Electoral Amendment Bill [B27-2010]
The Committee on Home Affairs (National Assembly) encourages interested individuals and organisations to submit written comments on the Local Government: Municipal Electoral Amendment Bill [B27-2010].
The Bill seeks to:
- Amend the Local Government: Municipal Electoral Act, 2000, so as to supplement provisions relating to the election timetable and insert a related Schedule to the Act;
- Amend provisions relating to nomination of candidates;
- Provide for central payments of deposits by a party which contests election in more than one municipality;
- Empower presiding officers to alter boundaries of voting stations, if necessary;
- Revise provisions relating to number of party agents at a voting station;
- Clarify the rights and responsibilities relating to assistance to certain voters;
- Provide for special votes and the procedure related thereto;
- Enhance the powers and functions of the Electoral Commission and the Electoral Court in relation to the determination and declaration of the result of an election;
- Provide for further regulation of objections material to the result of an election.
Public hearings will take place on 14 September 2010 at Parliament.
Comments can be emailed to Mr Eddy Mathonsi at emathonsi@parliament.gov.za by no later than 10 September 2010 at 12:00. Please indicate your interest in making a verbal presentation.
Enquiries: tel Mr Eddy Mathonsi:( 021) 403-3826, cell: 084 630 1992 / 083 709 8523
Issued by: Mr B Martins, MP, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs.
The Bill is also here: www.pmg.org.za/bill
