Section 11: Election of Councillors to Municipal City Council or Municipal Town Council

11. Election of Councillors to Municipal City Council or Municipal Town Council (1) The election of Councillors to a Municipal City Council or Municipal Town Council shall be— (a) held in 2015 and thereafter every 6 years or in such other year, and at such date, as the President shall, on the advice of the Prime Minister, appoint; and (b) conducted in accordance with the Representation of the People Act. (2) Subject to the Representation of the People Act, the President shall, for the purpose of an election of Councillors to a Municipal City Council or Municipal Town Council— (a) issue a writ of election; and (b) where necessary, appoint a day on which the poll is to be taken. (3) Where the Electoral Commissioner gives notice of an election referred to in this section, he shall indicate the number of Councillors to be returned for each ward of that Municipal City Council or Municipal Town Council. (4) (a) Four Councillors of a Municipal City Council or Municipal Town Council shall be returned from each electoral ward under the simple majority system. (b) Every person entitled to vote at an election referred to in this section shall vote for not more than 4 candidates. (5) Every Municipal City Council or Municipal Town Council, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for 6 years from the date on which the poll of the return of the entire Municipal City Council or Municipal Town Council is taken, as the case may be, and, subject to this Act, shall terminate on the day preceding nomination day at the next general election of Councillors. [Issue 8] L18 – 14 Revised Laws of Mauritius (6) (a) Every group presenting more than 2 candidates at an election of a Municipal City Council or Municipal Town Council shall ensure that not more than two thirds of the group's candidates for election to that Council are of the same sex. (b) Where the group forms part of an alliance, it shall be sufficient for the alliance to comply with paragraph (a) without each group forming part of the alliance necessarily complying with that paragraph. [S. 11 amended by s. 3 of Act 3 of 2015 w.e.f. 9 April 2015.]