Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Designation

• 199 (1) The Minister of National Defence shall designate a person as a coordinating officer to work, during and between elections, with the Chief Electoral Officer in carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Division.

• Marginal note:Duty

  (2) The coordinating officer shall, on request, provide to the Chief Electoral Officer the following information relating to each elector or future elector:

  • (a) his or her surname, given names, gender, rank and service number;

  • (b) his or her date of birth;

  • (c) the civic address and mailing address of his or her place of ordinary residence; and

  • (d) his or her current mailing address.

• Marginal note:Updating Register of Electors

  (3) The Chief Electoral Officer may use the information provided under subsection (2) to update the Register of Electors or Register of Future Electors.

• Marginal note:Retention of certain information

  (4) The Chief Electoral Officer may retain the information provided under subsection (2), but not included in the Register of Electors or Register of Future Electors, for the purpose of correlating information subsequently collected with information already contained in the relevant register.

• Marginal note:Information provided to coordinating officer

  (5) The Chief Electoral Officer may provide the coordinating officer with the information referred to in paragraphs (2)(a) to (d) relating to each elector or future elector who has provided a service number under this Part.