The Electoral Act, 1893.
(57th Vic., No. 15.)
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
| PRELIMINARY. | 27. Voter's name to appear only once. |
| od iip | Lists to be marked by Registrar. |
| 1. Short title. | 28. Lists to be exposed. |
| 2. Repeal. | |
| 3. Interpretation. |
| 4. Division to read Province. | OBJECTIONS. |
29. Objections to names on list. Notice to Registrar.
| PREPARATION OF ELECTORAL ROLLS. | Notice to person objected to. |
| 5. Registration Courts. | 30. Notice to person whose name is absent |
| 6. Electoral Registrar. | from list. |
| 7. Courts-how constituted and pre- | 31. Claims. |
| sided over. | Public notice of objection. |
S. Majority to decide.
| 9. Registrars to furnish deaths. | REVISION OF LISTS. |
| 10.List of Ratepayers. |
| Schedules. | 32. Registration Court to be held. |
| 11.To be transmitted to Registrar. | Notice of holding. |
| 12. Duty of Registrar. | Adjournment by Registrar. |
| 13. Consequences of absence of name from | By Court. |
| list of ratepayers. | Governor may ratify proceedings of |
| 14.Mode of claiming registration. | Court. |
| Form of claim. 13. Mode of filling up claims : | 33. Proceedings thereat. |
| 34. No person to have his name more |
| For Province. | than once on list. |
| For District | 35. Power to summon witnesses. |
16.Forms may be provided by Govern-
| ment Printer. | COMPILATION OF ROLLS. |
Directions to be printed.
| 17.Declaration and attestation. | 36. Electoral roll, how compiled. |
| IS. Justice to certify. | Form of. |
| 19.Duty of Justices. | COSTS. |
Penalty.
| 20. Notice to be sent by Electoral Regis- | 37. Costs in certain eases. |
| trar to Returning Officer and name | 38. Costs may be recovered. |
| to be erased from roll. |
| 21. Claimants may be called on to prove | ROLL. |
| their claims. | 39. Duration of Rolls. |
| Objections by Registrar. | Disqualifications from voting. |
| Claimant to appear and prove qualifi- | 40. Old rolls to continue till new rolls |
| cation. | complete. |
| 22. Rolls to be marked. | 41. Returning Officer to give copies of |
| Dead. | rolls. |
| Left. | 42. Provision against formal objections. |
| Disqualified. | 43. First General Election under this |
| Notices to be sent to persons proposed | Act. |
to be omitted.
23. List of persons proposed to be omitted
| by Electoral Registrar to be pub- | CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS. |
| lished. | 44. Same person may be Returning Officer |
| 24. Or the statement of whose residence | for several Provinces and Districts. |
| is to be altered. | 45. Polling places. |
| 25. Registrar to prepare Electoral Lists : | 46. Several polling booths at the same |
| For Province. | polling place. |
| For District. | 47. Poll clerks. |
26. Form of annual list.
The Electoral Act, 1893.
| Substitute may be appointed by Re- | 62. (I.), (2) Penalty for neglect by Re- |
| turning Officer. | turning Officer, &c. |
| Absence of Returning Officer or Pre- | (3.) Governor may mitigate or remit |
| siding Officer or substitute not to | penalty. |
| invalidate election. | 63. Stuffing ballot-boxes. |
| 48. Right of elector to vote under 53 V., | 64. Persons wilfully misleading Electoral |
| 23, s. 52, not affected. | Registrar, &c., liable to penalty. |
| Except in respect of a residence quali- | 65. False answers punishable as misde- |
| fication. | meanour. |
| 49. Questions to voters. | 66. Penalty for attempting to discover |
| 50. Consequence of answers. | persons for whom elector votes… |