Section 39F: Objections to supplementary list of claimants
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.
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;
(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.