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Section 35, The Public Elections Act, 2012

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(1) A person– (a) whose claim to have his name inserted in a provisional list has been disallowed; (b) who has made an objection to another person as not being entitled to have his name inserted in a provisional list; (c) whose name has been struck out from a provisional list; or (d) who has made an objection to another person as not being entitled to have his name inserted in a provisional list, and is dissatisfied with a decision of the Revising Officer on a point of law material to the result of his case, may, either in person or by counsel, deliver to the Registration Officer within seven days after the decision of the Revising Officer was given, a note in writing of his desire to appeal to the High Court by way of a case stated and such notice shall contain a short statement of the decision against which he desires to appeal. (2) The Registration Officer shall forthwith forward the notice of appeal to the Revising Officer. (3) The Revising Officer shall upon receiving the notice of appeal referred to in subsection (1), state in writing the facts which in his judgement have been established by the evidence in the case, and which are material to the matter in question and his decision upon the whole case, and also his decision upon any point of law appealed against, and shall sign and date the statement. (4) The Master and Registrar of the High Court, after receiving a case stated under subsection (3) from the Revising Officer, shall file the case in the High Court and shall forthwith set down the appeal for hearing and give seven clear days notice of the date of hearing of the appeal to the appellant and respondent, (if any). (5) When the High Court has determined an appeal, the Master and Registrar of the High Court shall forward forthwith to the Revising Officer a statement under his hand of the decision of the High Court. (6) Where by a decision of the High Court a decision of the Revising Officer is reversed or altered so as to require an alteration or correction in a provisional list of the Register of Voters, the Revising Officer shall forthwith alter or correct the list accordingly and shall sign his name after the words “altered (or corrected) on Order of the High Court dated the..........day of ..........20......” which he shall write against every alteration or correction on the provisional list.

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