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Part 5 — Structure of School Authorities Division 1 Creation of Public School Districts

98 Division 2 Establishment and Disestablishment of Separate School Districts Definitions

Current to 2025-12-11 · Official PDF

In this Division,
(a) "community information mee ting" means a meeting referred
to in section 103;
(b) "initiating separate school electors" means the separate
school electors referred to in section 100 who initiate the
process to establish a separate school district;
(c) "operating separate school board" means
(i) the school board that, pur suant to section 123(1)(b),
provides services to the separate school region in which
the newly established separate school district is to be
located, or
(ii) if no separate school region has been established in the
area in which the newly established separate school
district is to be located, an individual or a separate
school board designated by the Minister;

(d) "petitioners" means the initiating separate school elector s
who provide a petition for the establishment of a separate
school district in accordance with section 102(3);
(e) "public school board" means the public school division
operating in the area in which a newly established separate
school district is to be located;
(f) "separate school elector " means an individual who,
(i) where a separate school d istrict is not established,
(A) is an elector of the public school district, and
(B) declares that the indivi dual is of the same faith,
whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, as those in
the minority in the public school district,
a n d
(ii) where a separate school d istrict is established, declares
that the individual is of the same faith as those who
established the separate school district, whether
Protestant or Roman Catholic, and is an elector of that
separate school district;
(g) "separate school establishment area" means the separate
school establishment area determined in accordance with
section 101;
(h) "separate school region" means a separate school region
established pursuant to section 123(2).
2012 cE-0.3 s98;2019 c7 s18