[2018] CCJ 13 (AJ)
36. (1) Any person whose name does not appear in a register of electors or
revised register of electors and who claims to be entitled to be registered as
an elector for the constituency to which the register or list relates may attend
at the electoral revising centre in the polling district in which he resides.
(2) The Form 1 set out in the First Schedule shall be completed by or on
behalf of the applicant and shall be presented to the registering officer or an
enumerator.
(3) Where the registering officer or an enumerator is satisfied that the
applicant is qualified as an elector for the constituency in which the electoral
revising centre is established, he shall upon the applicant being
photographed in accordance with these Regulations for the purpose of being
issued with an identification card, cause the applicant’s name, and address
to be entered in the appropriate register or list, as the case may be, for that
constituency.
(4) Where the enumerator is not satisfied that an applicant is qualified to be
registered as an elector, he shall
(a) issue to the applicant the original of a notice of refusal in the Form 3 set
out in the First Schedule;
(b) inform the applicant that he may appear before the appropriate
registering officer when directed by notice in writing by that officer to
do so, if he wishes to justify his claim; and
(c) transmit to the appropriate registering officer a copy of the notice of
refusal issued to the applicant pursuant to sub-paragraph (a).
(5) The names of persons whose applications for registration have been
refused by the enumerator shall be listed in a form supplied by the Chief
Registering Officer, and the list shall be forwarded by the enumerator to the
registering officer.
42. (1) A claim or objection, which may be in the Form 1 or 12 set out in
the First Schedule, as the case may be, shall be in writing, shall state the
name, occupation and address of the claimant, or, as the case may be, the
objector, and, in the case of an objection, of the person objected to, and shall
specify the claim or objection and give full particulars in support thereof.
(2) Claims and objections shall be made available for inspection at the
address of the registering officer until completion of the determination of
claims and objections pursuant to these Regulations.
43. (1) If the registering officer is of the opinion
(a) that the particulars given in a claim or objection are insufficient, he may
ask for further information and take no further action until such
information is supplied; and should such further information not be
received by the registering officer by the last date for the receipt of
claims and objections specified in the notice referred to in regulation
40(2), no further action need be taken in respect of it;
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