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Section 39C: Compilation of supplementary registers

Representation of the People Act · PART IIA: SUPPLEMENTARY REGISTER OF ELECTORS

This section is inserted by Act No 2 of 2025, section 5.

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39C. Compilation of supplementary registers (1) For the election of members of a Municipal City Council or Municipal Town Council, or for such other election as may be prescribed, there shall be compiled for every electoral area a supplementary register of persons entitled to be registered as electors for that electoral area. (2) No person shall be entitled to be registered as an elector for an electoral area and have his name entered in a supplementary register unless – (a) his name is not already entered on the register for any electoral area; (b) he fulfils the criteria to be registered as an elector for that electoral area; and (c) he has attained or will have attained the age of 18 prior to the election day. (3) For avoidance of doubt, a person whose name is already entered in a register shall not be entitled to have his name entered in a supplementary register. (4) Every supplementary register shall come into force on the eve of election day.

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