ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) deputy constituency registrar or assistant constituency registrar, and shall submit to such officer the voters registration certificate, if any, issued to him or her: Provided that where an applicant seeks transfer of registration because he or she is or intends to be a candidate for election as a member of Parliament in a constituency in which he or she is not resident, the applicant shall send the appropriate prescribed form to the RegistrarGeneral of Voters for his or her approval. (2) Where an applicant seeks transfer to a constituency in which he or she is not resident, the applicant shall provide the Registrar-General of Voters with an address in that constituency where he or she shall be deemed to be resident for the purposes of any delimitation of constituencies in terms of the Constitution. (3) If the constituency registrar is satisfied that an applicant who seeks transfer of registration to a constituency in which he or she is resident is entitled to the transfer, the constituency registrar shall— (a) remove the applicant’s name from the voters roll for his or her constituency; and (b) forward the applicant’s name and particulars to the constituency registrar for the constituency to which the applicant has applied to be transferred. (4) On receipt of an applicant’s name and particulars forwarded to him or her in terms of subsection (3) a constituency registrar, if satisfied that the application is in order, shall register the applicant on the voters roll for his or her constituency and, as soon as he or she has done so, notify the voter thereof. (5) If, on receipt of an application in terms of the proviso to subsection (1) in which the applicant seeks transfer to a constituency in which he or she is not resident, the RegistrarGeneral of Voters is satisfied that it is appropriate for the applicant to be registered in that constituency, he or she may direct— (a) the constituency registrar for the constituency in which the applicant is registered to remove the applicant’s name from the voters roll for his or her constituency and forward the applicant’s name and particulars to the constituency registrar for the constituency to which the applicant has applied to be transferred; and (b) the constituency registrar of the constituency to which the applicant has applied to be transferred, on receipt of the applicant’s name and particulars forwarded to him or her in terms of paragraph (a), to register the applicant on the voters roll for his or her constituency and, as soon as he or she has done so, to notify the voter thereof; and the constituency registrars concerned shall comply with any such direction. (6) Any applicant aggrieved by any decision of the Registrar-General of Voters or a constituency registrar made under this section may appeal against the decision to a designated magistrate for the province in which either of the constituencies concerned is situated. 26 Voters registration certificates (1) Subject to subsection (3), on the registration of a voter in terms of this Part the constituency registrar shall issue him or her a voters registration certificate in the prescribed form. - 23 -