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Electoral Provisions (Registration of Electors) Regulations

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(3) If the registration officer rules that the applicant is not entitled to be registered as an elector he shall obtain forthwith from the revising officer a date, being a date during the period com- mencing on 30 November and ending on 10 December 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-

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

reasons therefor;

(b) 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 this paragraph);

(c) that if the applicant feels aggreived 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 determina- tion of the revising officer on such refusal; and

(d) 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 at the time and place specified in the notice of refusal of registration. sent to him under paragraph (3) 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 the ruling of the registration officer is not required, and accordingly such ruling shall stand.

Applications

15. Notices of application for inclusion in the final register under regulation 13 shall be made available for inspection in the registration officer's office during office hours on any working day until 25 November in the year in which such notices were lodged.

[Subsidiary]

65 of 1984, s. 28.

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Inspection of

notices of application.

65 of 1984, s. 28.