jul 18, 1900 - Dominion Elections Act (amendment, 1900)

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Dominion Elections Act, S.C. 1900, c. 12.

Link to legislation:
https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.ssl/sscan0208&i=159&a=eW9ya3UuY2E

"The Dominion Elections Act (1900) and its amendments in spirit continued the exclusion of Chinese that was conceived in Sir John A. Macdonald’s Electoral Franchise Act (1885).

In 1898, the Franchise Act was fixed to state in s. 5 (a) that 'the qualifications necessary to entitle any person to vote thereat shall be those established by the laws of that province as necessary to entitle such person to vote in the same part of the province at a provincial election.'

The Act was designed to give the provinces the responsibility of drawing up elections lists; it also clarified that the provinces were not allowed to disqualify voters, on grounds of their occupation, employment with provincial or federal governments and belonging to any class of person. For a brief time, citizens of Chinese or Japanese descent who were resident in British Columbia were permitted to vote in federal elections, even though they could not vote provincially."

Source:
http://www.roadtojustice.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Road-To-Justice-Legal-Reference.pdf

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