Procedure as to omissions and objections

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Every person —

whose name appears on the current register; or

who has, within the time specified, submitted a signed and completed form of application to be registered as an elector,

whose name has been omitted from or wrongly stated in the revised list and who claims to have that person's name inserted therein or the mistake rectified, as the case may be, shall, within twenty-one days after the publication of such list, give notice in writing in Form 7 to the registering officer of the electoral district in which that person was ordinarily resident on the registration day.

Every person whose name appears in any such list may object to any other person whose name also appears therein as not being entitled to have that person's name therein, and shall within twenty-one days after the publication of such list give notice of objection and the grounds of such objection in Form 9 to the registering officer of the electoral district in which that person was ordinarily resident on the specified day.

Where a person's name appears on the list, a registering officer may object to that person's name being on the list where the registering officer reasonably believes that that person is not entitled to have that person's name on the list and shall, within twenty-one days after the publication of such list, give notice of objection and the grounds of such objection in Form 9 and the registering officer shall cause a copy of the notice to be delivered to the residence of the person objected to, or sent by registered mail to the last known postal address of the person objected to.

A registering officer shall, as soon as practical after the receipt of a notice of objection under subsection (2) or (2A), cause a copy of the notice to be delivered to the residence of the person objected to or sent by registered mail to the last known postal address of the person objected to.

Within seven days after the expiration of the twenty-one days mentioned in subsection (2) and (2A), each registering officer shall prepare a list of all such claims and objections and the respective names, street addresses and occupations of the persons who have made the same. Such list shall be published and shall be open to the inspection of the public free of charge during the hours of business in each day for a period of fifteen days after the preparation of such list at such places as the Governor may direct in the electoral district to which such list applies and at the Elections Office in George Town.