Municipal Government franchise.
Residence qualification.
Provided that any period of abuse
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PART II
"Years of age" or words of like meaning, when used in
reference to the age of any person means years according to
English reckoning.
(2) For the purposes of registration a person's age shall
be taken to be that person's age on the last day of the
qualifying period.
Words importing the masculine gender shall include females.
PART II. FRANCHISES.
3.- (1) A person shall be entitled to be registered as
an elector for a constituency, if he has attained the age of
twenty-five years and is able to read and write either the
English or the Chinese language and is not subject to any legal
incapacity or disqualification, and -
(a) has the requisite residence qualification,; and
(b) has either the requisite property or the requisite
personal qualification under the provisions of this
Ordinance.
(2) No person shall be entitled to be registered as an
elector otherwise than upon his own personal application to the
registration officer and upon due compliance with the lawful
requirements of the registration officer.
4. A person, in order to have the requisite residence
qualification for a constituency,
from the long during the gabre 1942, 1943.,
(a) must on the date of his application for registration
be residing in premises in the constituency; and
must during the whole of the qualifying period have
(b)
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Qualifying period.
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recided in premises within the Mmicipality: pusident in the Colony for a total period of four years buuring
The qualifying period shall be –
(a) for a person who is a British subject or a person
of European race who is not a British subject, a
period of twelve months since attaining the age of
twenty-one years; and
(b) for other persons, a period of six years during the
ten years immediately preceding the application for
registration.
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