Duty of registration officer to prepare electors lists.
Claim to be sent to the registration officer.
Notice of hearing of claim.
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his claim and may by such notice call upon the applicant
to produce such evidence as the registration officer may
think fit to verify and substantiate any matter contained
in the application.
Duty of Registration Officer to Prepare and
Publish Lists.
11. It shall be the duty of the registration officer to
prepare or cause to be prepared lists (in this Ordinance
referred to as electors lists), as nearly as may be in the
form in which the register is to be framed, for each polling
district of all persons whose claims to be registered as
electors he has admitted, and to cause those lists to be
open to inspection at the registration office or such other
place as he may determine for five days commencing as soon as
may be after the completion of such lists.
The registration officer shall cause to be published in
one or more newspapers, both English and Chinese, published
in the Colony, notice stating the times and places at which
the electors lists will be open to inspection and specifying
the mode in which, and the time within which, claims and
objections are to be made under these rules.
Claims to be correctly registered.
12. Any person whose name is entered in an incorrect
place or manner or with incorrect particulars on the electors
lists may claim to be registered correctly by sending to the
registration officer, within seven days after the last day on
which the electors lists are open to inspection, a claim
setting forth particulars of his reasons for claiming that he
should be registered correctly.
13. Upon the receipt of any such claim as mentioned in
the last preceding rule the registration officer shall give
to the claimant at least five clear days' notice stating a
time and place at which he will be heard by the registration
officer on his claim, or, if he considers that the claim may
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