Urban Council.
(5) If any question arises as to the right of any person to be included in the second part of the said register such question shall be decided by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, subject to an appeal within seven days to the Governor in Council whose decision thereon shall be final: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to vary such decision at any time.
(6) Subject to any rules made under section 4 of this Ordinance, the second part of the said register shall be closed to any fresh applications for registration for fourteen days before the day appointed for any ballot for the election of a member of the Urban Council, and shall remain closed until after the balloting in that election shall have been completed.
(7) Any person who at any ballot held under this section applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any such ballot, applies at the same ballot for a ballot paper in his own name, and any person who, for the purpose of procuring his registration in the second part of the register referred to in subsections (3) to (6), knowingly makes any false or misleading representation, whether verbal or in writing or by conduct, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months.
(8) If any question arises as to the validity of any proceeding in any election or intended election of a member of the Urban Council the decision of the Governor in Council thereon shall be final and conclusive for all purposes whatsoever, and the Governor in Council may thereupon give any direction which he may think fit.
(9) The other six additional members (three of whom shall be Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor.
4. All matters relating to the keeping and revision of the register and to the election of the members shall be governed by rules made by the Governor in Council. The names of all members elected or appointed shall be forthwith notified in the Gazette.
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