Section 39C: Compilation of supplementary registers
This section is inserted by The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 2025, section 5.
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
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.