Section 22, The Rural Area (2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1950, or

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) of thissection, every person whether male or female shall be entitled to be registered as a voter for any one village area of a local authority and when registered to vote at the election of a member for that local authority, who- (a) has attained the age of twenty-one years; and either (b) (i) has been ordinarily resident in that village area during the whole of the six months immediately preceding the date of registration, and (ii) is in receipt of a yearly income of at least sixty pounds; or (c) is and has been for the six months immediately preceding the date of registration, the owner or occupier (jointly or severally) of any house, warehouse, counting house, shop, store or other building (in this Ordinance referred to as Qualifications of voters. 22 of 1956. Appoin·Gment of Registration Officers and Revising Officers. of Assistant Registration Officers. qualifying property) in the village area of which the annual assessed value is not less than two pounds (provided that where any persons are shown to be joint occupiers of any qualifying property, the names of such persons shall only be placed on the list of registered voters if the annual assessed value of such qualifying property, divided by the number of joint occupiers, is not less than two pounds). (2) Both an owner and an occupier and both a husband and a wife may qualify in respect of the same property. (3) Notwithstanding the previous provisions of this section, no person shall be registered as a voter or, having been registered, shall be entitled to vote at the election of a member of a local authority- (a) if he is an alien; or (b) if he is a lunatic so found under the laws for the time being in force in Sierra Leone; or (c) if he is disqualified from being registered as a voter or voting under any law for the time being in force in Sierra Leone relating to offences connected with elections; or (d) if he is serving a sentence of imprisonment.