CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 153

Statement by person applying for registration.

cf. Rule 37

Sched. I.

See draft attacks

PART III & PART IV

18. (1) A person applying for registration as an

elector shall make and sign an application in the prescribed

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form and shall if so required produce such evidence as the

registration officer may think necessary to verify and

substantiate any matter contained in the said application and

in particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the

foregoing provision, shall if called upon so to do, produce to

the registration officer evidence as to the date of his birth,

his nationality, his length of residence in the Colony, the

inclusion of his name on any Jury List and, in the case of a

statement as to a property qualification, evidence as to the

ownership or tenure of the property or the payment of rates

thereon during the qualifying period.

(2) A person applying for registration as an elector shall,

if required by the registration officer so to do, satisfy the

registration officer (through an interpreter if need be) that he

is able to read and write either the English or the Chinese

language and if the person fails so to satisfy the registration

officer he shall not be entitled to registration as an elector.

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PART IV.

G

GENERAL

Voting by persons in employment of returning officer.

S. 24

19. Where an elector for any constituency is employed by

the returning officer for any purpose in connection with an

election and the circumstances of that employment are, in the

opinion of the returning officer, such as to prevent him from

voting at the polling station at which the elector would

otherwise be entitled to vote, the returning officer may authorize

the elector, by a certificate given under his hand, to vote at

any other polling station in the constituency in respect of which

he is registered as an elector, and such other polling station

shall for all purposes be deemed to be the polling station

allotted to that elector.

10.