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Disqualifica. tion by statos.

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(ii) as regards a person applying for registra- tion as an elector after the expiry of the qualify- ing period for registration on the register to be compiled as aforesaid, the last day of that qualify- ing period:

(b) in the case of a person whose name appears on the last previous final register compiled pursuant to section 19, the first day of the qualifying period for registration on the register to be compiled as aforesaid:

Provided that no person whose name appears on the final register of electors published by Gazette Notification No. 271 on the 29th day of January 1965 shall be dis- qualified from registration as an elector on the provisional register to be compiled in the year 1966 or on the final register to be compiled and published on or before the 1st day of April 1967 by reason only of his not having ordin- arily resided in the Colony for the three years immediately preceding the 15th day of February 1966, but every such person shall be deemed, for the purpose of the provisional register to be compiled in the year 1966 and the final register to be compiled and published on or before the 1st day of April 1967, to satisfy the residential require- ment of this section notwithstanding that he has not ordinarily resided in the Colony for the three years afore- said.

16. (1) No person shall be entitled to be registered as an elector on any register to be compiled pursuant to section 19 or, even if registered, to vote at the election of any ordinary member of the Council who-

(a) oither has not attained the age of twenty-one years according to the Gregorian calendar, that is to say, by Western reckoning, or will not have attained that age before the expiration of the qualifying period for registration on such register;

(6) has in any part of Her Majesty's dominions or in any territory under Her Majesty's protection or in any territory in which Her Majesty has from time to time jurisdiction been sentenced to death or imprisonment (by whatever name called) for a term exceeding six months and has not either suffered the punishment to which he was sentenced or such other punishment as may by

Temporary disqualifica- Lian.

(20 of 1955).

(Cap. 113).

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competent authority have been substituted there for or received a free pardon; or

(<) is under any law in force in the Colony found or declared to be of unsound mind or adjudged to be a lunatic; or

(d) is a member of the regular armed forces of the Crown (which expression, however, shall be deemed not to include locally enlisted personnel of the said armed forces).

(2) A person registered as an elector on the final register of electors in force on the date of the election of any ordinary member of the Council shall not be excluded. from voting at that election on the ground that, by virtue of subsection (1), he is not entitled to vote at that election: but this subsection shall not prevent the rejection of the vote by the Court on an election petition under Part VII or affect his liability to any penalty for voting.

17. (i) The following persons are disqualified from boing registered as electors or, even if registered, from voting at an election of an ordinary member of the Council beld within seven years from the date of conviction-

(a) any person convicted of a corrupt practice or of an illegal practice within the meaning of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Ordinance 1955. other than the illegal practice consisting of a contravention of any of the provisions of sub- section (2) of section 19 of that Ordinance, or convicted of a corrupt or illegal practice within the meaning of any other enactment for the time being in force providing for the punishment of corrupt or illegal practices:

(b) any person convicted of an offence under section 3 or 4 of the Prevention of Corruption Ordinance. (2) A person shall not be disqualified from voting at an election by reason only of the fact that he is employed for payment by or on behalf of a candidate at such election, so long as the employment is legal.

(3) A person registered as an elector on the final register of electors in force on the date of the election of any ordinary member of the Council shall not be excluded from voting at that election on the ground that he is disqualified under this section from voting at that election: but this subsection shall not prevent the rejection of the vote by the Court on an election petition under Part VII or affect his liability to any penalty for voting.".