ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ 17A Voter registration to be conducted continuously (1) Voter registration shall be conducted on a continuous basis so as to keep the voters rolls up-to-date. (2) Pursuant to subsection (1), every person claiming to be a voter shall be entitled, at any time while the voters roll is open, to lodge a claim for registration as a voter or for the transfer of registration as a voter in terms of this Act— (a) during normal working hours on any working day, in the case of a registration office; or (b) during the period when a mobile voter registration facility is operating in the area where the voter wishes to be registered as a voter, or from or to which he or she wishes to be transferred as a voter. [Section inserted by s. 19 of Act No. 17 of 2007] 18 Commission to register voters (1) In this section— “former Registrar-General of Voter” is a reference to the Registrar-General of Voters appointed in terms of section 18 of this Act before its substitution by this section through the General Laws Amendment Act, 2016; “Registrar-General of Births and Deaths” means the person referred to in section 3(a) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act [Chapter 5:02]; “Registrar-General of Citizenship” means the person referred to in section 3 of the Citizenship of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 4:01]; “Registrar-General of National Registration” means the person referred to in section 3(a) of the National Registration Act [Chapter 10:17]. (2) The Commission is deemed with effect from the 22nd May, 2013 (being the “publication day” of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, 2013), to have assumed the functions of the former Registrar-General of Voters, that is to say such functions as were imposed or conferred upon the Registrar-General of Voters by or under this Act before the 22nd May, 2013, including in particular the functions of registering voters, compiling voters’ rolls and registers, ensuring the proper custody and maintenance of voters’ rolls and registers, and all other functions in connection therewith: Provided that, consistently with section 239(j) of the Constitution, the Commission may give such instructions to the former Registrar-General of Voters, in his or her capacity as the Registrar-General of Births and Deaths, the Registrar-General of Citizenship and the RegistrarGeneral of National Registration, as will ensure the efficient, free, fair, proper and transparent conduct of any election or referendum. (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Commission may— (a) direct the Chief Elections Officer, a voter registration officer, the former RegistrarGeneral of Voters or (subject to paragraph (b)) any member of the Civil Service to assume and exercise any function which in terms of this Act before its amendment by the General Laws Amendment Act, 2016, is vested in a constituency registrar; (b) with the consent of the Civil Service Commission, instruct any member of the Civil Service to assist it in any of its voter registration functions in terms of this Act; (c) in relation to an election to which Part XVIII applies, delegate any of its voter registration functions in terms of this Act, the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13] or the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15] to a member of the Civil Service. (4) The Commission and the former Registrar-General of Voters, in his or her capacity as the Registrar-General of Births and Deaths, the Registrar-General of Citizenship and the Registrar-General of National Registration, have a duty to co-operate with each other to ensure that their respective databases, as they relate to the eligibility or potential eligibility of voters, are in harmony with each other. 31