Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Deletion of names

• 52 (1) The Chief Electoral Officer shall delete from the Register of Electors or Register of Future Electors the name of any person who

  • (a) is dead;

  • (b) is not an elector or future elector, as the case may be, subject to subsection 44(4);

  • (c) requests in writing to have his or her name deleted;

  • (d) is, by reason of mental incapacity, under a court-ordered protective regime, including guardianship, tutorship or curatorship, and whose authorized representative under the regime requests in writing that the person’s name be deleted; or

  • (e) is a future elector with a mental incapacity whose parent requests in writing that the future elector’s name be deleted.

• Marginal note:Conditions

  (1.1) A person’s name may be deleted under paragraph (1)(d) only if the authorized representative has provided the Chief Electoral Officer with a copy of the court order and satisfactory proof of that representative’s identity.

• Marginal note:Deletion of name — discretionary

  (2) The Chief Electoral Officer may delete from the Register of Electors or Register of Future Electors the name of any person who fails to comply with a request referred to in paragraph 51(b) within the 60 days.