093_HB2153 LRB093 05862 JAM 05955 b 1 AN ACT in relation to elections. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing 5 Section 1-2 as follows: 6 (10 ILCS 5/1-2) (from Ch. 46, par. 1-2) 7 Sec. 1-2. Continuation of prior laws. The provisions 8 of this Act, so far as they are the same as those of any 9 prior statute, shall be construed as a continuation of those 10suchprior provisions, and not as a new enactment. 11 If in any other statute reference is made to an Act of 12 the General Assembly, or a Section of such an Act, thatwhich13 is continued in this Election Code, thesuchreference shall 14 be held to refer to the Act or Section thereof so continued 15 in this Code. 16 (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)