Section 25, The Public Elections Act, 2012

(1) For being satisfied as to the claim of a person to beregistered as a voter, a Registration Officer may request from the person applying to be registered any of the following:– (a) a birth certificate or other such document issued under the authority of an enactment; Period for registration of Registration of voters outside Sierra Leone. Voters to be registered once only. Appointment of Registration Officers and Revising Officers. Appointment of Assistant Registration Officers. Notice of intention to compile Voters. Notice inviting claims of eligible Notice of claim for Proof of claim for (b) a naturalisation certificate; (c) the testimony of a member of the Local Council in the area of his residence; (d) a statutory declaration giving particulars of the person’s birth; (e) any other satisfactory evidence of the person’s entitlement to be registered as a voter. (2) A Registration Officer shall examine a document or testimonial evidence presented to him and, if satisfied with the validity of the document or the sufficiency of the testimonial evidence, shall register the person concerned. (3) A person who establishes a claim to be registered as a voter under this section, shall be registered in a form containing the particulars in Form C of the Second Schedule, but designed in a manner determined by the Electoral Commission and shall be issued a voter registration card by the Registration Officer. (4) Where a voter registration card issued to a registered voter is proved to the satisfaction of the Registration Officer to be lost, defaced or destroyed, the voter may, upon application made in person to the Registration Officer, be issued a new voter registration card and in the case of a card that is defaced, upon the surrender of that card. (5) A person wishing to vote in an election shall present the voter registration card issued to him in subsection (3). (6) Notwithstanding subsection (5), a person whose name appears on the Voters Register shall be entitled to vote at an election even though he does not possess or present to the Presiding Officer, Assistant Presiding Officer or the polling assistant a voter registration card, if he satisfies the officer that he is the person whose name appears on the Voters Register for the ward or polling station in question.