Article 9 Amendment of section 43 of the Constitution

Section 43 of the Constitution (qualifications of voters) is amended—

(a)

in subsection (1), by inserting after the word “district” the words “and in the single electoral district”;

(b)

in subsection (1)(a), by substituting for the words “a British overseas territories citizen”^f1 the words “an Anguillian”;

(c)

in subsection (2), by inserting at the end the words “apart from the single electoral district”;

(d)

by inserting the following new subsections—

“(3)

In this section “qualifying date” means such date as may be appointed by or under any law as the date with reference to which the qualifications of persons for registration as voters, for the purpose of the election of members of the House of Assembly, are to be ascertained.

(4)

In this section and section 45, “single electoral district” means the single electoral district provided for by legislation enacted under section 46(2).”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 2(3) of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8) provides that references to a British Dependent Territories citizen in any other enactment passed or made before the commencement of that section shall be read as a reference to a British overseas territories citizen.