ELECTORAL REGULATIONS, 2005 (c) National 15,00 x Total number of wards in the country (3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that the voters roll can only be provided as a ward voters roll or a constituency voters roll. [Subsection inserted by s.i 68 of 2013] [Section substituted by s.i 153 of 2009] 16. Duties of constituency elections officers and polling officers when rolls printed (1) The Commission shall arrange for every constituency elections officer and presiding officer to be furnished with a copy of the rolls for that election, and every constituency elections officer shall permit every candidate to examine, for such period as the constituency elections officer considers expedient in the circumstances, a copy of the rolls for that election (2) At the election, the presiding officer may himself or herself, and if so required by a candidate or his or her chief election agent or election agent shall, before allowing a person to vote— (a) require the person to exhibit his or her proof of identity; and/or (b) put to him or her such questions as the presiding officer considers necessary to enable the presiding officer to be satisfied that the person is qualified to vote; and if the person does not— (d) comply with paragraph (a); or (e) answer any question put to him or her under paragraph (b) to the satisfaction of the presiding officer; he or she shall not be handed a ballot-paper: Provided that— (i) no voter shall be disqualified from voting solely on the grounds that his or her answer to any question put to him or her under paragraph (b) indicates that he or she has changed his or her name or address or both; (ii) in the case of a change of name, the voter may be asked to produce proof of the same in the form of an affidavit, deed poll or notice of change of name in the Gazette. (4) The presiding officer at the polling-station shall ascertain, by reference to the roll for the constituency, that the person claiming to vote is a person enrolled on that roll and, having ascertained that he or she is so enrolled and his or her number on the roll, the presiding officer shall— (a) mark the ballot-paper with the official mark and hand it to the person claiming the vote; and (b) draw a line through the number and surname of the voter on the roll as evidence that the voter has received a ballot-paper. (5) Immediately after the count, the presiding officer shall make up into a separate packet and seal in accordance with the provisions of section 69(1)(b) of the Act the marked copies of the roll and shall forthwith deliver or cause it to be delivered to the constituency elections officer. (6) In relation to postal ballot papers— (a) it shall not be necessary for the application to be accompanied by the voters registration certificate of the applicant; (b) the constituency elections officer shall draw a line through the number and surname of the voter in a copy of the roll, certified as correct by the Chief Elections Officer, as evidence that the voter has been issued with the postal ballot paper to which he or she is entitled but without showing the particular ballot paper issued to him or her. (7) The constituency elections officer shall, if possible before the polling day, send to the presiding officer of every polling-station in the constituency a list of persons to whom postal ballot papers have been issued and the presiding officer shall write on the roll the letters “P.V.” opposite the name of each such voter. (8) Immediately after the declaration of the result of the poll the constituency elections officer shall transmit all the marked copies of the rolls to the Chief Elections Officer who shall retain them for six months and, unless otherwise directed by an order of the Electoral Court, cause them to be destroyed. 17. …. [Section repealed by s.i 88 of 2013] 18. Chief election agents and election agents : Presidential elections (1) No later than forty-eight hours before polling day or the first polling day, as the case may be, in the election concerned, a candidate for election to the office of President may appoint not more than— (a) two national chief election agents; and (b) one provincial chief election agent for each province; and (c) one constituency chief election agent for each constituency; and shall forthwith notify in writing the full names and addresses of the persons so appointed to the Chief Elections Officer. (2) Not later than forty-eight hours before polling day or the first polling day, as the case may be, in the election concerned, the election agents referred to in subsection (1) may appoint one or more persons, not ex6