Section 4A: Residence qualification
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.
4A. Residence qualification
(1) Subject to subsection (2), for the purpose of section 42 (1) (b)
and (2) (b) of the Constitution, section 5 (1) of the Rodrigues Regional
Assembly Act and section 20 of the Local Government Act, the qualifying
date for the purpose of determining the residence of any person shall, in respect of the register to be compiled in a year, be 1 January in that year.
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(2) For the purpose of subsection (1) and of section 33 (c) of the Constitution, a service elector shall be deemed to be resident at the address specified in the declaration made by him under section 10 (5).
[S. 4A amended by s. 76 (c) of Act 39 of 2001 w.e.f. 18 January 2002; s. 146 (8) (b) of
Act 32 of 2003 w.e.f. 22 August 2003; s. 7 (b) of Act 23 of 2005 w.e.f. 18 August 2005;
s. 165 (16) (b) of Act 36 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 December 2011.]