Section 39G: Notice of 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.
39G. Notice of objections to supplementary list of claimants
(1) The registration officer shall, the following day after receiving a valid
notice of objection, cause a notice in the Form I of the Schedule to be served on the
person in respect of whose registration the notice of objection is given, calling upon
him to show cause, not later than 2 days after service of the notice, why his name
should not be expunged.
(2) (a) The registration officer shall examine the supplementary list of
claimants with a view to ascertaining whether all the persons whose names appear
on the supplementary list of claimants are qualified as electors.
(b) Where the registration officer has reason to believe that a
person whose name appears on the supplementary list of claimants is not qualified
as an elector, he shall cause a notice in Form I of the Schedule to be served on that
person, calling upon him to show cause, not later than 2 days after the publication of
the supplementary list of claimants under section 39E, why his name should not be
expunged.
(3) The registration officer shall, in addition, cause a notice to be served
on the objector under subsection (1) or (2), as the case may be, of the time and place
at which the objection will be considered by him.