Legislative Council (Elections).


Expenses of.
Elections.


Computation of
time.


Refusal of
elector to take
oath or
affirmation or
answer
questions.
Interpreters.




Repeal.
Cap. 110.
-No. 16 of 1946.


 (f) prescribing the period during which every-employer shall
 permit his employees to be -absent from work for the
 purpose of recording their votes;
 (g) prescribing the charges for certified copies of any
 documents referred to in this Ordinance;
 (h) prescribing penalties for the breach of any of the
 regulations made hereunder. .

 83. All expenses properly incurred by, and all remuneration
and travelling allowances payable to, election officers shall be
defrayed out of general revenue. .

 84'. (1) In reckoning time for the purposes of this Ordinance,
Sunday shall be included but Christmas Day, Good Friday and
any public holiday, shall be excluded.
 (2) Where anything required by this Ordinance or any rules
thereunder to be done on any day falls to be done on a Sunday or
on any such excluded day, that thing may be done on the next
day, not being one of such excluded days.

 85. (1) No elector who has refused to take any oath or
affirmatioil-or to answer any question, as required by this
Ordinance, shall receive a ballot paper or be admitted to vote or
be again admitted to the polling station.
 (2) Whenever the presiding officer does not understand the
language spoken, by any elector, he shall appoint and swear an
interpreter who shall be the means of communication between
him and the elector with reference to all matters required to
enable such elector to vote, and in case no interpreter is found,
such elector shall not be allowed to vote.

 86. The LegislativeCouncil (Elected Members) Ordinance
and the Legislative Council (Elected Members) (Amendment)
Ordinance 1946 are hereby repealed.


1951.