AN ACT further to amend the Electoral (Franchise, Method of Election and Registration of Voters) Ordinance, Capo 157.

I assent.

«L.S.)

ANTON BUTTIGIEG

President

20th July, 1981

AeT No. XXV of 1981

AN ACT further to amend the Electoral (Franchise, Method of Election

and Registration of Voters) Ordinance, Capo 157.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this -present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Franchise, Method of Short title.

Election and Registration of Voters) (Amendment) Act, 1981, and

shaB be read and construed as one with the Electoral (Franchise,

Method of Election and Registration of Voters) Ordinance, hereinafter

referred to as "the principal law".

, th e re

Amendment of

For subsection (4) of section 15 of the principal

law

sectioD 15

shall be substituted the following

of the principal

1aw.

"(4) The lists of the electoral register shall, in each

section, be drawn up in the alphabetical order of the surnames of

the voters under the name of each street.

(5) The place of residence of any person registered as

a voter, as well as such other particulars as the Electoral Registrar

may consider necessary for the purpose of his identification, shall

be shown against the name of each voter

Provided that an error in any particular so shown

shall not of itself affect that person's entitlement to vote.".

In subsection (2) of section 16 of the principal la w the words

"and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the afore­

said, for the purposes of section 30 of the Electoral (Polling) Ordinance,

(Chapter 163)" shall be deleted.

Subsection (3) of section 33 of the principal law shall be Amendment

a.mended by the addition of the following proviso at the end thereof: of section 33

"Provided that in the year 1981, the second revised electoral law.

register shall be published in the month of September, and shall

contain all corrections, additions, transfers and cancellations as

on the thirty-first day of August of that year.".

For section 33A of the principal law there shall be substituted

the following new section

"Additions,

(1) The Electoral Registrar may, whether or not

an a pplication under subsection (1) of section 33 of this

Ordinance has been made -

(a) incIude in the register any person who in his

opinion is entit1ed to make an application as aforesaid;

and

(b)

subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of

this section, make any correction of any person's desig­

nation, address or other particulars as shown in the

electoral register or transfer any person's name to

another division if he is satisfied that such correction or

transfer is justified.

(2) The Electoral Registrar shall not make any

correction or transfer under paragraph (b) of subsection (1)

of this section unless he has first communicated his decision

in writing to the person to whom the correction or transfer

relates; and such person may, within seven days from the

service of such notice, appeal from the decision of the Elec­

toral Registrar to a Revising Officer, who, after hearing the

appellant and the Electoral Registrar. and such evidence, if

any, as may be necessary. shall make an order allowing or

disallowing the appeal. ".

6. For the Second Schedule to the principal law there shall be

substituted the following Schedule

"SECOND SCHEDULE

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION AS A VOTER

To the Electoral Registrar, Valletta, Malta.

I.D. Card No.

Surname ....................................................

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Name ........................................................

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Date of birth ............................................................................................

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Place of ordinary residence:-

Name of town or vi11age ............................................................................. .

Street and number of premises .................................................................... .

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Name and surname of applicant's father

His place of birth .....................................................................................

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Name and maiden surname of applicant's mother ............................................

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Her place of birth ...................................................................................

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I hereby apply to be registered as a voter for the .................................... ( l )

electoral division in accordance with the Electoral (Franchise, Method of Election and

Registration of Voters) Ordinance, to be registered as a voter for the election of

Members of the House of Representatives.

Date .............................

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Signature Of mark of applicant

Insert number of electoral division.

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Chd.

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 523 of the 13th July, 1981.

C. AGIUS

Speaker

C. M!FSUD

Clerk to the House of Representatives

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