qualification in the same constituency and otherwise to

make those lists complete and accurate as a register.

18.

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Where the registration officer makes any correction

in the lists otherwise than consequent upon a claim or

objection, or for the purpose of correcting a clerical error

or removing duplicate entries, he shall give notice to the

person affected by the correction, and give that person an

opportunity of objecting to the correction, and, if necessary,

of being heard with respect thereto.

Formation of Register.

19. The registration officer shall make all the

necessary corrections of the lists and do everything necessary

to form those lists into a register (with a separate letter or

combination of letters and a separate series of numbers for

each polling district) in time to allow the publication of the

lists so corrected as a register as required by these rules.

Duty to Publish and Deliver Copies of

the Register.

20.

It shall be the duty of the registration officer

to publish the register not later than the first day of March

in each year by publishing notice that a copy of the register

is open to inspection during business hours at his office or

such other place as may be mentioned in the notice and that

copies of the part of the register relating to any

constituency or polling district are open to inspection

during business hours at convenient places to which the public

have access mentioned in the notice.

The registration officer shall arrange for copies of

the register or parts of the register, as the case may be, to

be available for inspection at the respective places

mentioned in his notice.

It shall be the duty of the registration officer to

transmit a copy of the register and of every part thereof, as

soon as may be after it is published, to the Colonial Secretary.

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