ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) (4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), the Commission shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, not later than seven days after the calling of the election concerned, provide to every political party and candidate contesting the election, and every accredited observer group, one electronic copy of every voters roll to be used in the election: Provided that in the event of any discrepancy between an electronic copy of a voters roll and a voters roll prepared in terms of subsection (3), the latter roll shall be deemed to be the authentic record of the voters roll. 22 Powers to demand information In the performance of his or her duties under this Act, a constituency registrar shall at all times have the power— (a) to demand from any claimant any information reasonably necessary to enable the constituency registrar to ascertain whether the claimant is qualified to be registered as a voter or to ascertain his or her place of residence; (b) to demand from any person any information reasonably necessary to enable the constituency registrar to ascertain whether a voter or a claimant is qualified to be registered as a voter or to ascertain the place of residence of any voter or claimant or whether any voter or claimant is dead; (c) to require any voter or claimant to answer such reasonable questions as will enable the constituency registrar to complete a prescribed form of claim in accordance with section twenty-four. PART V RESIDENCE QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS AND REGISTRATION OF VOTERS 23 Residence qualifications of voters (1) Subject to the Constitution and this Act, in order to have the requisite residence qualifications to be registered as a voter in a particular constituency, a claimant must be resident in that constituency at the date of his or her claim: Provided that if a claimant satisfies the Registrar-General of Voters that he or she is or intends to be a candidate for election as a member of Parliament for a particular constituency in which he or she is not resident, the claimant may be registered as a voter in that constituency. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a claimant shall be deemed to be residing in a constituency while he or she is absent therefrom for a temporary purpose. (3) A voter who is registered on the voters roll for a constituency, other than a voter who has been registered in that constituency in terms of the proviso to subsection (1), shall not be entitled to have his or her name retained on such roll if, for a continuous period of twelve months, he or she has ceased to reside in that constituency: Provided that nothing in this subsection shall prevent his or her name from being struck off such voters roll— (a) on his or her being registered in another constituency; or (b) if he or she becomes disqualified for registration as a voter. - 21 -