CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 110

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21. - (1) Where an elector who is accompanied by

another person makes application to the presiding officer

to be allowed on the ground of blindness to vote with the

assistance of the person accompanying him (in this Schedule

referred to as "the companion"), the presiding officer shall

require the elector to declare orally whether he is so

incapacitated by his blindness as to be unable to vote without

assistance.

(2) If the presiding officer is satisfied that the

elector is so incapacitated and is also satisfied by a written

declaration made by the companion (in this Schedule referred

to as "the declaration made by the companion of a blind

elector") that the companion is a qualified person within the

meaning of this paragraph and has not previously assisted

more than one blind person to vote at the election then being

held, the presiding officer shall grant the application, and

thereupon anything which is by this Schedule required to be

done to or by the said elector in connection with the giving of

his vote, may be done to, or with the asistance of, the

companion as the case may be.

(3) For the purpose of this paragraph a person shall

be qualified to assist a blind elector to vote, if that person

is either

(a) a person who is entitled to vote at the election

then being held; or

(b) the father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife,

son or daughter of the blind elector and has

attained the age of twenty-one years,

(4) The name and number on the register of electors of

every elector whose vote is given in accordance with

this paragraph and the name and address of the

companion shall be entered on a list (in this

Schedule called "the list of blind electors assisted

by companions").

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