s.13Preparation of quarterly register
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Section 13Part 2 — Electoral Districts and Registration of Electors

Preparation of quarterly register

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It shall be the duty of every registering officer to compile the revised list for the electoral district to which that registering officer is appointed.
Every registering officer shall, at least ten days before the registration date in each quarter, publish a copy of the Registration Notice in Form 5, in two issues of a newspaper circulating in the Islands and shall arrange for the information contained in the Registration Notice to be brought to the attention of persons qualified to be registered in such other manner, including by radio or television, as the Supervisor, in the Supervisor's discretion, may determine.
Every registering officer shall also, within the period specified in section 14(1), proceed to list the name, street address and occupation of every person qualified to vote for the election of the Cayman Islands Parliament in the electoral district for which that registering officer has been appointed, and shall prepare such list from the current register from the applications in Form 4 that have been received, duly completed and signed and from the information obtained from the returns submitted to that registering officer under section 19 or 21. Provided that that registering officer may, on that person's own motion, place on such list any person whom that registering officer has reasonable grounds for believing is qualified to be registered and whom that registering officer is satisfied is unable to complete Form 4 by reason either of blindness, illiteracy or any physical incapacity.
The names, street addresses and occupations of all electors who are included in the revised list shall be written down by the registering officer in the manner and form specified in section 14(1) with the names of the electors grouped according to the initial letters of their surnames, and with the surname, given names and occupation of each being fully stated.
Every registering officer shall exercise the utmost care in preparing the revised list for the electoral district for which that registering officer has been appointed, taking all necessary precautions to ensure that the list, when completed, contains the name, street address and occupation of every qualified elector in the said electoral district and that it does not contain the name of any person who is not qualified.
Every registering officer who has received an application for registration as an elector in Form 4 and who has not so registered that applicant shall forthwith give notice of refusal of the application in Form 6 by causing it to be delivered to the residence of the applicant.
Any registering officer who wilfully or without reasonable excuse —
refuses to prepare the revised list as provided in subsection (1);
omits from the revised list the name of any person who has applied in Form 4 and who is entitled to have that person's name entered thereon;
fails to give notice of refusal under subsection (6); or
enters on the revised list the name of any person who is not entitled to have that person's name entered thereon,
commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months.
Where a person whose name does not appear on the current register and who is qualified to be registered as an elector in an electoral district is of opinion that that person is likely to be temporarily absent from that electoral district when the revised list is being prepared, that person may appoint in writing in the prescribed form and in the prescribed manner another person to act as that person's registration agent for the purpose of ensuring that person's registration as an elector in that electoral district.
A registration agent appointed by any person under subsection (8) —
may, on or before the registration date, apply on behalf of that person for that person's name to be entered on the register for the following quarter;
may give, on behalf of that person, notice under section 15 that that person's name has been wrongly omitted from or wrongly stated in the revised list and Form 7 may be adapted for the purpose;
may represent that person at any proceedings before the revising officer under sections 16 and 17;
may do all such other acts, matters or things as may lawfully be done by that person to ensure inclusion of that person's name in the revised list and in the Register of Electors; and
shall be obliged to accept, on behalf of such person, any notice of objection to the inclusion of such person's name in the revised list under section 15(2), and accordingly any such notice shall be deemed to have been validly served on such person if it is validly served on such agent.

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