The Turks and Caicos Islands (Constitution) (Interim Amendment) (No. 3) Order 1987

article 2

SCHEDULE 1 AMENDMENTS TO PART IV OF PRINCIPAL ORDER

1.  Section 19(b) of the principal Order shall be amended by substituting the word “thirteen” for the word “eleven”.

2.  Section 21 of the principal Order shall be amended by the deletion of subsection (2).

3.  Section 22 of the principal Order shall be replaced by the following—

“Qualifications for elected membership.

22.   Subject to section 25 of this Order, a person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the Legislative Council if, and shall not be qualified to be so elected unless, he—

(a) has attained the age of twenty-one years; and

(b) is, on the date of his nomination for election, resident in the Islands and has been so resident for not less than twelve months, in the aggregate, out of the two years immediately preceding that date; and

(c) falls into one of the following categories, that is to say—

(i) he was born in the Islands; or

(ii) he was born outside the Islands of a father or mother either of whom was born in the Islands; or

(iii) he has, under the law in force in the Islands regulating immigration, the status of “Belonger”.”

4.  Section 26(3) of the principal Order shall be amended by the deletion of paragraph (c).

5.  Section 27 of the principal Order shall be amended by substituting for subsection (1) the following—

“(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, a person shall be qualified to be registered as an elector for the purpose of the election of members of the Legislative Council if, and shall not be so qualified unless, on the qualifying date—

(a) he has attained the age of eighteen years; and

(b) he is resident in the Islands and has been so resident for not less than twelve months, in the aggregate, out of the two years immediately preceding the qualifying date; and

(c) he falls into one of the following categories, that is to say—

(i) he was born in the Islands; or

(ii) he was born outside the Islands of a father or mother either of whom was born in the Islands; or

(iii) he has, under the law in force in the Islands regulating immigration, the status of “Belonger”.”

6.  Section 28(2) of the principal Order shall be amended by the deletion of paragraph (b).