Section 39H: Correction to supplementary list of claimants

39H. Correction to supplementary list of claimants (1) The registration officer shall make such additions and corrections to the supplementary list of claimants as are required to give effect to his decision on any objection, and shall also make any such correction in that list, whether by way of the removal of duplicate entries (subject to any expression of choice by the persons affected as to those entries), the expunging of the names of persons who are dead or subject to any legal incapacity, the correction of clerical errors or otherwise, in order to ensure that no person is registered as an elector in respect of more than one qualification in the same electoral area and that the list will be complete and accurate as a supplementary register. (2) Where, on consideration of an objection, it appears to the registration officer that the person in respect of whose registration objection is taken, is not entitled to be entered on the supplementary list of claimants under the qualification in which he claims to be registered or in which he is entered on the list, but is entitled to be entered on the supplementary list of claimants under another qualification, the registration officer may decide that the name of that person shall be entered accordingly. (3) Where the registration officer makes a correction in the supplementary list of claimants, otherwise than in pursuance of an objection, or for the purpose of correcting a clerical error, he shall give notice to the person affected by the correction.