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Delivery of copies of the register.
Notice of appeal from registration officer.
Appeals relating to the same point.
Publication of documents.
21.
It shall be the duty of the registration officer,
on the application of any person during business hours and on
payment of the prescribed fee, to furnish to the applicant
copies of the register or of so much thereof as relates to any
constituency or polling district: Provided that nothing in
this rule shall impose on the registration officer the
obligation to cause to be re-printed the register or any part
thereof after stocks of copies thereof have become exhausted.
22.
Appeals from Registration Officer.
A person desiring to appeal against the decision of
a registration officer must give notice of appeal in the
prescribed form to the registration officer and to the opposite
party, if any, when the decision is given, or within five days
thereafter, specifying the grounds of appeal.
The registration officer shall forward any such notices
to the Registrar of the Supreme Court in manner directed by
rules of court, together in each case with a statement of the
material facts which, in his opinion, have been established in
the case, and of his decision upon the whole case and on any
point which may be specified as a ground of appeal, and shall
also furnish to the court any further information which the court
may require and which he is able to furnish.
23. Where it appears to the registration officer that any
notices of appeal given to him are based on similar grounds,
he shall inform the Registrar of the Supreme Court of the fact
for the purpose of enabling the Court (if the Court thinks fit)
to consolidate the appeals, or select a case as a test case.
General.
24. Where the registration officer by these rules is
required to publish any document and no specific provision is
made as to the mode of publication, he shall publish the document
by making copies of the document available for inspection by the
public in his office or some other place which, in his opinion,
will be convenient to those interested in the document, or in
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