Section 8: Registers for local government areas
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.
8. Registers for local government areas
(1) For the purposes of section 4 (1), the Electoral Commissioner shall
compile for every local government area the register of the register of persons
entitled to be registered as electors in that area in accordance with this Part.
(2) (a) Where a registration area of a constituency comprises a part of a
local government area, the registration officer for the constituency shall prepare, in respect of the registration area, a list of local government electors or
Rodrigues Regional Assembly electors, as the case may be, for that part of
the local government area.
(b) A list of local government electors or Rodrigues Regional Assembly
electors, as the case may be, under paragraph (a) shall include every person
who—
(i) where the local government area is a ward—
(A) is entitled, under section 20 of the Local Government Act, to
be registered as an elector for elections held under section 11 of that Act in respect of the ward; and
(B) is a resident of, or has any other qualification under section 20 of the Local Government Act in respect of, the part
of the ward which is comprised in the registration area;
(ii) where the local government area is a village—
(A) is entitled, under section 20 of the Local Government Act,
to be registered as an elector for the election of members
of the village council; and
(B) is a resident of, or has any other qualification under section 20 of the Local Government Act in respect of, the part
of the village which is comprised in the registration area.
(c) A list of Rodrigues Regional Assembly electors under paragraph (a) shall include every person who is entitled, under section 5 of the
Rodrigues Regional Assembly Act, to be registered as an elector for the election of members of the local region.
(3) The register for a local government area under subsection (1) shall—
(a) where the local government area is comprised in a single registration area, consist of the list of local government electors or
Rodrigues Regional Assembly electors, as the case may be, prepared under subsection (2) for that registration area; and
(b) where the local government area is comprised in different registration areas, be made up of the lists of local government electors or
Rodrigues Regional Assembly electors, as the case may be, prepared under subsection (2) for these registration areas, and each
of these lists shall constitute a separate part of the register.
[S. 8 amended by s. 76 (d) of Act 39 of 2001 w.e.f. 18 January 2002; s. 146 (8) (c) of
Act 32 of 2003 w.e.f. 22 August 2003; s. 7 (c) of Act 23 of 2005 w.e.f. 18 August 2005;
s. 165 (16) (c) of Act 36 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 December 2011.]
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