COMPETENT WITNESSES
IMPORTANT NOTE.—Notwithstanding the lists below, a candidate or a candidate’s agent in any
election is not a competent witness in respect of voting by post at that election.
A competent witness to an application for a postal ballot paper is the Registrar-General of Voters or
any person who—
(a) is a member of Parliament, a Provincial Governor, the principal diplomatic representative of
Zimbabwe in any country or the deputy of such representative, or a member of the staff of such
representative appointed by him or her, or the trade commissioner or any consular official for
Zimbabwe in any country; or
(b) inside Zimbabwe, holds the position of a hospital matron, Government mining engineer,
Government inspector of mines, mine manager, constituency elections officer, deputy
constituency elections officer, assistant constituency elections officer, or chairperson or
secretary of a town council or rural district council; or
(c) inside or outside Zimbabwe, is or holds the office of or an appointment as a chartered
accountant, corporate member of an engineering institute, land surveyor, corporate member of
an institute or association of architects, postmaster, legal practitioner, advocate, barrister,
attorney, solicitor, magistrate, bank manager, commissioned officer in the Defence Forces,
justice of the peace, commissioner of oaths, mayor, medical practitioner, town clerk, assistant
town clerk, veterinary surgeon or commissioned police officer.
Form V.14
ELECTORAL ACT [CHAPTER 2:13]
(Section 72(4))
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BALLOT PAPER ENVELOPE
No. ……………
BALLOT PAPER ONLY TO BE ENCLOSED IN THIS ENVELOPE
This envelope, together with the Declaration of Identity, must be placed in the envelope addressed
to the constituency elections officer for the constituency of .………………………………
………………………………………………...
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