ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ shall be deemed to be resident for the purposes of any delimitation of constituencies in terms of the Constitution. [Subsection amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (3) If the voter registration officer of a particular constituency 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 voter registration officer 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 a voter registration officer for the constituency to which the applicant has applied to be transferred. [Subsection substituted by s. 11 of Act No. 6 of 2018] (4) On receipt of an applicant’s name and particulars forwarded to him or her in terms of subsection (3) a voter registration officer, 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. [Subsection amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (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 Commission is satisfied that it is appropriate for the applicant to be registered in that constituency, he or she may direct— (a) the voter registration officer 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 voter registration officer for the constituency to which the applicant has applied to be transferred; and (b) the voter registration officer 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 voter registration officers concerned shall comply with any such direction. [Subsection amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016 and by s. 11 of Act No. 6 of 2018] (6) Any applicant aggrieved by any decision of the Commission or a voter registration officer 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. [Subsection as substituted by section 22 of Act No. 17 of 2007 and amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 26 Voters registration certificates (1) On the registration of a voter in terms of this Part the voter registration officer shall issue him or her with a voters registration certificate specifying— (a) the voter’s last name, date of birth, national registration number and sex; and (b) the ward, constituency, district, province and, in the case of polling station specific registration, the polling station in or for which the voter is registered. (2) On the transfer of the registration of a voter in terms of section 25 the voter shall be issued with a voters registration certificate by the voter registration officer of the constituency to which he or she has been transferred. [Section substituted by Part VI of Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 26A Closure of voters roll before nomination day No person shall be registered as a voter for the purposes of voting at any Presidential election or election of members of the Parliament or councillors unless he or she lodges a claim for registration or transfer of registration under section 24 or 25 no later than the second day following the publication of proclamation referred to in section 38 or a notice referred to in section 39, as the case may be, in relation to that election. [Section substituted by s. 12 of Act No. 6 of 2018] 37