Section 17Part 2 — Electoral Districts and Registration of Electors
Procedure on settling of revised lists
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The registering officer shall produce to the revising officer on the day fixed under section 16(3), the list of claims and objections received by such registering officer, and the revising officer shall consider such list and shall insert in the revised list the name of every person who is proved to that person's satisfaction to be entitled to have that person's name inserted therein, rectify any mistake in such revised list of which that registering officer is satisfied and strike out of the said list the name of every person who, upon the application of the objector, is proved to the satisfaction of the revising officer to be disentitled to have that person's name retained in the said list.
If the objector appears neither in person, nor by attorney-at-law, nor by some elector duly authorised in writing by that objector in that behalf, the objection shall be overruled and the name of the person objected to shall be retained in the revised list for the electoral district or polling district, as the case may be.
The revising officer sitting to settle the revised lists shall have power to adjourn the same to such time and as often as may be necessary, and shall have the same powers for the keeping of order in that person's court as is now or may be hereafter given to a magistrate under any law of the Islands.
The revising officer sitting as aforesaid shall determine all claims or objections, and shall write that person's initials against any name struck out of the revised list or inserted therein and against any mistake or omission corrected, and shall sign that person's name to every page of each revised list when the same is finally settled.
If the revising officer is of the opinion that the claim or objection of any person is without foundation or is frivolous, that revising officer may order such person to pay the actual costs of the inquiry including the costs of witnesses, and such costs shall be recoverable by an action before any court of competent jurisdiction.
The decision of the revising officer shall be final and no appeal shall be allowed therefrom.
Cross References
- Section 16 of Elections Act
section 16(3)