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Distinctive
letter for
polling district.
Marking of names where more than one entry in registers.
Applications for registration.
Supply of forms of application.
Notice of availability of forms and times &c. for lodging applications.
Consideration of applications and allowance thereof.
Inquiry where claim not admitted.
4. Unless the Council shall otherwise direct, each
polling district shall be given a distinctive letter or
combination of letters and the same shall be clearly marked
on each page of the register relating to such polling
district.
5. Where the name of an elector is entered in the
register of more than one constituency, the registration
officer shall place before his name an asterisk or other
distinctive mark.
6.
Application for Registration.
Every application for registration as an elector
shall be in the prescribed form and shall be signed by the
person claiming to be entitled so to be registered and shall
be lodged with the registration officer.
7. The registration officer shall cause to be printed
and made available to the public supplies of the prescribed
form, together with such instructions, if any, as he may
think necessary for the guidance of applicants.
8. The registration officer shall, as soon as may be
after the 1st November in each year, cause to be published
in one or more newspapers, both English and Chinese,
published in the Colony, notice stating -
(a) the place or places at which the prescribed
forms may be obtained, and
(b) the times within which and places at which
applications for registration may be lodged.
9. The registration officer shall consider all
applications lodged with him in accordance with these rules
and, if he considers that the application may be allowed
without further inquiry, shall enter the name of the
applicant on the electors list.
10.
If the registration officer is not satisfied that
any such application can be allowed without inquiry, he shall
give at least five clear days' notice to the applicant of
the time and place at which the applicant will be heard on
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