1964_ELECTORAL_PROVISIONS_(REGISTRATION_OF_ELECTORS)_REGULATIONS — Page 5

1984 Ed.]

Electoral Provisions (Registration of Electors) Regulations

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[Subsidiary]

(2) If the registration officer rules that an applicant is entitled to be registered as an elector he shall, forthwith-

(a) determine, on the basis of the residential address declared by the applicant, the part of the provisional register in which his particulars shall be entered;

(b) register the applicant as an elector in the provisional

register,

and inform the applicant in writing accordingly.

(3) If he rules that an applicant is not entitled to be registered 65 of 1984, s. 28. as an elector, the registration officer shall-

(a) on or before 15 October in the year in which the applica- tion was lodged, deliver to the revising officer the name and address of such applicant; and

(b) obtain forthwith from the revising officer a date, being a date during the period commencing on 15 October and ending on 25 October in the year in which the application is lodged, and a time and place for the hearing by the revising officer of representations (if any) respecting such ruling,

and shall thereupon send to the applicant a notice of refusal of registration stating-

(i) that such registration has been refused and giving the

reasons therefor;

(ii) that the application has been referred to the revising officer who will sit on a date and at a time and place specified in the notice (being the date, time and place obtained under sub-paragraph (b));

(iii) that if the applicant feels aggrieved by such refusal he may appear either in person or by any other person on his behalf before the revising officer on the specified date and at the specified time and place and be heard, or (whether he will appear or not) make written representations so as to reach the revising officer, at an address stated in such notice, before the specified date, and obtain the determination of the revising officer on such refusal; and

(iv) that if the applicant does not appear either in person or by any other person on his behalf before the revising officer on the specified date and at the specified time and place and no written representations have been received from him by the revising officer before such date, the revising officer may assume that his determination on such refusal is not required and that, in such case, the registration officer's refusal of registration shall stand.

(4) If the applicant does not appear either in person or by any other person on his behalf before the revising officer on the date and

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