Repeal and #splacement of sections 18, 19 and 20.
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7. Sections 18, 19 and 20 of the principe) Ordinance are repealed and replaced by the following new sections-
"Appoint- avent of registration officer.
Duties of registration officer.
18. (1) On or before the 15th day of May 1966, and on or before the 15th day of February in each alternate year thereafter the Governor shall appoint a registration officer:
Provided that if no appointment is made the person who previously performed the duties of registration officer shall continue to perform such duties until such appoint- ment has been made.
(2) The Governor may appoint an assistant registra- tion officer.
(3) Notification of the appointment and the address of the registration officer shall forthwith be published in the Gazette.
(4) The registration officer shall be provided with such staff as may be required from time to time.
19. (1) It shall be the duty of the registration officer-- (a) in the year 1966 to compile a provisional register on or before the 16th day of November and in the year 1968 and in each altemate year thereafter to compile a provisional register on or before the 16th day of August; and
(b) to compile and publish a final register on or before the 1st day of April 1967 and on or before the 1st day of January 1969 and on or before the 1st day of January in each alternate year thereafter. (2) A final register shall come into force on the 15th day of January next following the date of publication there- of and shall remain in force until the 14th day of January of the second year following the year in which it came into force:
Provided that-
(i) the final register to be published on or before the 1st day of April 1967 shall come into force on the 15th day of April 1967 and the final register published by Gazette Notification No. 271 on the 29th day of January 1965 shall remain in force until the 14th day of April 1967;
(ii) if for any reason whatsoever a final register is not published, as required by subsection (1), on or before the 1st day of April 1967 or on or before the 1st day of January in any year, the register in force at that time shall continue in force until
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fifteen days after the date of publication of such final register.
(3) Unless for any reason it appears to the registration officer that the contrary may be the case, he shall, in com- piling a provisional register under this section, presume, subject to any regulations under section 23 concerning the periodical ascertainment of the facts hereinafter mentioned, that any person whose name appears on the last previous final register compiled pursuant to this section is still living. satisfies the residential requirement of section 15A, is not disqualified under section 16 or 17 from being registered as an elector and wishes to be registered on the provisional register being compiled, and, accordingly, notwithstanding that no application has been made by such person to be registered on that register, the registration officer shall include his name in such register; and any name so included shall, subject to the allowance of any duly mado objection respecting the same, be also included in the ensuing final register.
(4) In the case where it appears to the registration officer that a person whose name appears on the last previous final register compiled pursuant to this section may be dead or may not satisfy the residential requirement of section 15A or may be disqualified under section 16 or 17 from being registered as an elector, he may omit the name of such person from the provisional register to be compiled pursuant to this section in such circumstances and after such inquiry, if any, as may be prescribed by regula- tions under section 23.
20. (1) The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall perform the duties of revising officer during the period commencing on the 16th day of December 1966 and ending on the 15th day of January 1967 and during the period commencing on the 16th day of September and ending on the 15th day of October in the year 1968 and in each alternate year thereafter, at such times and at such place as he shall have notified to the registration officer:
Provided that if for any reason whatsoever the Registrar of the Supreme Court is not available to sit as revising officer at any time the Chief Justice may appoint any magistrate or any legal officer within the meaning of the Legal Officers Ordinance to perform the duties of revising officer,