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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE.

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C.O.882/11

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

Appeals to revising officer.

Notices by

registering and revising officers and adjourn-

menta.

Registering or revising officer may administer oath in taking evidence.

Certification of revised register.

Assistant registering or revising officers.

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Form of Objection.

To the Registering Officer of

I (name in full) of (address) hereby object to the name/names of the person/persons mentioned and described below being retained on Constituency in your the register of voters for the registration district. The grounds of my objection are specified below:-

Name of Person objected to.

Place of Abode as described in Register.

Ground of objection.

Dated

(Signature of Objector).

41. (1) If any claimant, person objected to, or objector is dissatisfied with the decision of the registering officer, he may, within ten days from the date thereof, appeal to the revising officer.

(2) Every such appeal shall be in writing, and shall state shortly the grounds of appeal. The revising officer shall hear such appeals in open court or office, giving notice of the dates of the hearing of the appeal to the parties concerned. It shall be in his discretion whether to hear or not to hear any evidence. His determination of the appeal shall be final and conclusive. In the case of an appeal in connection with the Burgher Constituency, the revising officer may, if he thinks fit, consult the Advisory Board appointed under Article 32 (2).

(3) When the revising officer has determined all the appeals which have been lodged with respect to any register, he shall forward to the registering officer a statement under his hand of the names which he has decided shall be inserted in or expunged from the register, and the registering officer shall amend the register accordingly.

42.—(1) All notices required to be given by a registering officer or a revising officer shall be sufficiently given if sent by registered letter to the address, if any, given in the claim or objection, or, in default of such address, to the address given in the register of voters.

(2) A registering or revising officer may from time to time adjourn any proceedings before him under this section to any convenient time and place.

43. A registering or revising officer may, on the consideration or hearing of any claim, objection, or appeal, require that the evidence tendered by any person shall be given on oath and may administer an oath for this purpose; and any person who in the course of any such consideration or hearing knowingly swears anything material to the validity of such claim or objection which is false or incorrect shall be guilty of the offence of giving false evidence, and shall be liable to the punishment provided therefor.

44. The registering officer shall certify the revised register, and the register so certified shall come into operation on the first day of January following the publication of the notice mentioned in Article 39, and shall continue in operation until superseded by another revised register. A copy thereof shall at all reasonable hours of the day be open for inspection at the Kachcheri of the registration district concerned or at such other place as may have been specified in the notice under Article 39.

45. The Governor may from time to time appoint one or more persons to assist any registering officer or revising officer in the

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performance of his duties. A person so appointed shall have all the powers and may perform all the duties of a registering officer or revising officer, as the case may be.

ELECTIONS.

46.-(1) Whenever it is shown to the satisfaction of the Notice of Governor in Executive Council that the seat of an elected member election. has become vacant, the Governor shall within one month, by notice in the Gazette, order that an election shall be held to fill the vacancy. (2) The Governor shall within two months after every dissolution of the Council, by notice in the Gazette, order that a general election of the elected members of the Council shall be held.

(3) Every such notice shall specify the date when, not being less than 14 days or more than one month after the publication of the notice, and the place or places where candidates for election are to be nominated.

47. (1) The Governor shall from time to time by notice in the Returning Gazette appoint a fit and proper person to be the returning officer officers. of each constituency, and may at any time revoke any such appointment.

(2) If any returning officer shall, by sickness or other cause, be prevented or disabled from acting at any election and there shall not be time for another person to be appointed by the Governor, the returning officer may appoint a deputy to act for him. Every such appointment shall as soon as possible be reported to the Governor and may be confirmed or disallowed by the Governor, but without prejudice to the validity of anything already done by such deputy.

(3) Every appointment of a returning officer made under the Order in Council of 1923 shall be deemed to have been made under this Order.

48.-(1) Any person not ineligible for election under this Order Nomination may be nominated as a candidate for election.

(2)-(a) Each candidate shall be nominated by means of one or more separate nomination papers each signed by two persons, whose names are on the register of voters for the constituency for which the candidate seeks election, as proposer and seconder respectively: Provided that in the case of the Commercial Constituency, the duly appointed representative of any company or firm under Article 60 (5) may sign a nomination paper as proposer or seconder, and shall thereupon be deemed, for the purpose of this Order, to be proposer or seconder, as the case may be.

(b) The written consent of the candidate must be annexed to,

or endorsed on, the nomination paper.

(3) The signature of the proposer and seconder shall be attested by a Justice of the Peace or by a notary public.

(4) Every nomination paper shall be in the form following, viz. :-

Nomination Paper for *.

1. Name of candidate in full.

2. Address

3. Occupation

* Here insert a description of constituency.

papers.

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