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.
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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.
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