PART II
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Supplementary provisions as to residence qualification.
8.7(2)
Supplementary provisions as to property qualification.
8.7
Right of person registered to vote.
8.8
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(2) No person who is serving in the Colony as a member
of the regular naval, military or air forces of the Crown
shall be entitled to be registered as an elector.
8.
Residence in any premises shall not be deemed to
be interrupted for the purposes of this Ordinance by reason
only of absence of the person whose residence is in question
for a part or parts of the qualifying period not exceeding
four months in the whole.
9. (1) A person who owns or occupies any premises as
executor or trustee or in any other capacity which does not
in law constitute him actual owner or tenant thereof shall
not be deemed to have the requisite property qualification in
respect of such premises.
(2) Where any premises are in the joint ownership of
two or more persons such premises shall for the purposes of
this Ordinance be treated as owned, to the exclusion of the
other or others, by the one of such joint owners named first in
the Land Office registers in relation to the transaction by
which the premises were acquired by them who possesses the
other qualifications entitling him to registration.
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(3) Where any premises are/occupation of two or more
persons as joint tenants such premises shall for the purposes
of this Ordinance be treated as occupied, to the exclusion of
the other or others, by the first of such occupiers who shall
be entitled to and apply for registration as an elector having
a property qualification in respect of such premises.
c. 10. Every person registered as an elector for any
constituency shall, while so registered (and in the case of
a woman notwithstanding sex or marriage), be entitled to vote
at an election of a member to serve in the Council for that
constituency:
Provided that a person registered as an elector shall
not be entitled to vote more than once for the constituency
comprising the whole Municipality or more than once for any
electoral division or ward, or to vote for more than one
electoral division or ward.
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