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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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