Parish elections will go ahead

Tuesday 17 December 2019

A decades-old Guernsey law has had to be amended to allow two parishes elections, which were planned for this month, to go ahead.

Neither the Vale or St Martin's were able to hold their elections last month, when the Reform (Guernsey) Law 1948 specifies they should have taken place.

They were due to hold them earlier in December but faced difficulties with the law and the electoral roll closing at the end of November.

However, the Registrar-General of Electors, the Committee for Home Affairs, the Law Officers of the Crown, the States Assembly & Constitution Committee and the Policy & Resources Committee joined together and managed to come up with a solution.

P&R approved an amendment to the law, allowing SACC to come up with new dates for parochial elections to take place by regulations.

The changes came into force yesterday and will see elections take place in both parishes on 18 December.

Pictured top: The Vale and St Martin's Douzaine rooms.