[2018] CCJ 13 (AJ)
(b) that a claim may be allowed without its being referred to the Chief
Registering Officer, he may allow the claim provided that no objection
is made thereto, and shall so inform the person making the claim;
(c) that the objector is not entitled to object, he may disallow the objection
and shall so inform the objector by notice in the Form 3 set out in the
First Schedule;
(d) that a claim or objection cannot be allowed because the particulars given
in the claim or objection do not entitle the claimant or objector to
succeed, he shall refer the matter to the Chief Registering Officer and
send a notice in the Form 13 set out in the First Schedule, in the case of
a claim, to the person making a claim, and, in the case of an objection,
to the objector and the person objected to, stating the time and place at
which the Chief Registering Officer proposes to hear the claim or
objection; and the notice sent to the person objected to shall also state
the name and address of the objector and the grounds of the objection.
(2) The time fixed for the hearing of a claim or objection shall not be earlier
than the third day after the date of the notice referred to in paragraph (1)(b).
(3) The registering officer shall make lists of claims and objections available
for inspection at his address until completion of the hearing of claims and
objections, together with the time and place at which the Chief Registering
Officer proposes to hear any claim or objection.
44. (1) On the hearing of a claim, the person making the claim and any
person who has duly made an objection, and, on the hearing of an objection,
the objector and the person objected to, and, on the hearing of either, any
other person who appears to the Chief Registering Officer to be interested,
shall be entitled to appear and be heard.
(2) The right to appear and be heard includes the right to make written
representations.
(3) Any person entitled to appear and be heard may do so either in person
or by any other person duly authorised in writing in that behalf.
45. (1) For the purposes of the discharge of their functions under the Act or
these regulations, the Chief Registering Officer, a registering officer or an
enumerator may, in relation to a person claiming to be registered or against
whose inclusion in a register of electors or revised register of electors an
objection has been made, if he thinks necessary
(a) require that person either to produce a birth certificate or to make a
sworn declaration as to the date of his birth;
(b) require that person either to produce a certificate of naturalisation or a
document showing that he has become a Commonwealth citizen by
virtue of registration, or to make a sworn declaration that he was a
Commonwealth citizen on the qualifying date;
(c) enquire into, examine and investigate the qualification of that person to
be registered and take such evidence as may be necessary to have it
proved to his satisfaction that that person is qualified to be registered.
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