Section 39F: Objections to supplementary list of claimants
This section is inserted by Act No 2 of 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.
39F. Objections to supplementary list of claimants
(1) A person whose name appears on a register or on
a supplementary list of claimants may object to the registration
of a claimant for the electoral area as that in respect of which the
objector’s name appears in the register or the supplementary list of
claimants in the manner provided under subsection (2).
(2) An objection to the registration of a person, whose
name is included in the supplementary list of claimants shall be
made by depositing the notice of the objection in Form H of the
Schedule to the registration officer not later than 2 days after the
expiry of the 2 day-period referred to in section 39E.
(3) A notice of objection under this section shall not
be valid unless it is accompanied by a deposit of the sum of
1,000 rupees.
(4) Where, after considering the objection, and subject to
an appeal being made from his decision, the registration officer –
(a) admits the objection, the deposit shall be returned
to the objector;
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(b) does not admit the objection, the deposit shall
be –
(i) paid to the person objected to, if that
person has appeared at the hearing of the
objection; or
(ii) forfeited to the State if that person has not
appeared.