CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 145

Municipal Government franchise.

Residence qualification.

Provided that any period of abuse

PART I & 145

PART II

"Years of age" or words of like meaning, when used in

reference to the age of any person means years according to

English reckoning.

(2) For the purposes of registration a person's age shall

be taken to be that person's age on the last day of the

qualifying period.

Words importing the masculine gender shall include females.

PART II. FRANCHISES.

3.- (1) A person shall be entitled to be registered as

an elector for a constituency, if he has attained the age of

twenty-five years and is able to read and write either the

English or the Chinese language and is not subject to any legal

incapacity or disqualification, and -

(a) has the requisite residence qualification,; and

(b) has either the requisite property or the requisite

personal qualification under the provisions of this

Ordinance.

(2) No person shall be entitled to be registered as an

elector otherwise than upon his own personal application to the

registration officer and upon due compliance with the lawful

requirements of the registration officer.

4. A person, in order to have the requisite residence

qualification for a constituency,

from the long during the gabre 1942, 1943.,

(a) must on the date of his application for registration

be residing in premises in the constituency; and

must during the whole of the qualifying period have

(b)

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Qualifying period.

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recided in premises within the Mmicipality: pusident in the Colony for a total period of four years buuring

The qualifying period shall be –

(a) for a person who is a British subject or a person

of European race who is not a British subject, a

period of twelve months since attaining the age of

twenty-one years; and

(b) for other persons, a period of six years during the

ten years immediately preceding the application for

registration.

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