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Section 30, The Public Elections Act, 2012

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(1) A person whose name has been omitted from a copyof the provisional list of voters or part of the list prepared and exhibited under section 28, and who claims to have satisfied the Registration Officer concerned of his entitlement to be registered under this Act shall, during the period of exhibition of the copy or part of it, apply or present himself to the Electoral Commission to have his name inserted in the copy, as provided for in Form E of the Second Schedule. (2) A person whose name appears in a copy of the provisional list or part of it may object to another person whose name also appears in the provisional list as not being entitled to be registered as a voter, and shall, during the period of the exhibition of the copy or part of it under section 28, give notice of his objection to the Electoral Commission in Form F in the Second Schedule, and to the person objected to, in Form G of the Second Schedule, giving reasons for his objection. (3) Within five days of the expiry of the exhibition referred to in subsections (1) and (2), the Electoral Commission shall cause to be prepared and exhibited, in a place where a copy of the provisional list or part of the list has been exhibited under section 28, a statement of all claims and objections in respect of the copy or part of the list, giving the names of the persons who have made the claims or the objections. (4) A person who knowingly causes his name to be included in a copy of a provisional list while not entitled to be registered or a Registration Officer who knowingly includes the name of a person who is not entitled to be registered commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction, to a fine of five hundred thousand leones or to imprisonment for a term of two years.

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