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ENCLOSURE 6

Paragraph 24(v)

PROPERTY AND JURY SERVICE (AND EXEMPTION

QUALIFICATIONS

To entitle a person to have his or her name placed

upon the register of electors it shall be necessary that he

or she should have either a qualification depending directly

upon the ownership or occupation of property which has been

enjoyed for a certain period fixed by law, or a qualification

depending directly upon liability for jury service under the

provisions of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, or upon inclusion in

any of the classes specified under the heading of Jury Service

Qualification in this note, being in the main classes exempted

from Jury Service.

Property Qualification.

A person shall be deemed to have this qualification if

at the time of his or her application for registration and for

not less than three months immediately preceding the same

$12.10.0

(a) he or she is the owner of any tenement within the

meaning of Section 2(i) of the Rating Ordinance, 1901,

in respect of which, as a single rateable tenement,

rates amounting to not less than $200 per annum are

paid, or

(b) he or she is the tenant of the whole of any tenement

in respect of which as a single rateable tenement

rates amounting to not less than $200 per annum are

paid, or, in the case of any such tenement the ground

floor whereof is a shop, he or she is the tenant of

such shop, or

(c) he or she is the owner of any tenement in any one of

certain villages to be specified in the electoral law

in respect of which as a single rateable tenement rates

amounting to not less than $20 per annum are paid, or

is the tenant of the whole of any such tenement.

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