ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) (c) by sending it to any place of residence referred to in paragraph (b) through the post by registered letter marked upon the outside “electoral notice letter” and, unless the contrary is proved, the notice or other document shall be deemed to have been served at the time at which such registered letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post. 189 Validation of certain documents despite misnomer or inaccurate description No misnomer or inaccurate description of any person or place in any voters roll or in any list, nomination paper, ballot paper, notice or other document required for the purposes of this Act shall affect the full operation of the document with respect to that person or place where the description of the person or place is such as to be commonly understood. 190 Complaints to Commission (1) Any claimant or person aggrieved by the decision of a constituency registrar under section twenty-four or twenty-five or the decision of the Registrar-General of Voters or constituency registrar under section thirty-five may lodge a complaint with the Commission in the prescribed time and manner. (2) Upon receiving a complaint in terms of subsection (2), the Commission shall, if it considers the complaint to be justified, order the Registrar-General of Voters or constituency registrar, as the case may be, to take the appropriate remedial action after affording the Registrar-General of Voters or constituency registrar concerned an opportunity to make representations on the matter. (3) The Commission may in writing delegate its functions under subsection (2) to the Chief Elections Officer or any other officer of the Commission. 191 … [Repealed] 192 Regulatory powers of Commission (1) The Commission may by regulation prescribe all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which, in its opinion, are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act. (2) Regulations in terms of subsection (1) may provide for— (a) any matter for which it is expressly provided in this Act that regulations may be made; (b) the form of any document to be used in the carrying out of the provisions of this Act; (c) the duties of constituency elections officers, presiding officers and polling officers where the electoral officer has made a declaration in terms of subsection (6) of section twenty-one, including the manner of identifying applicants for ballot papers and the questions that may be put to such applicants; (d) the issue of duplicate voters registration certificates and the fee payable therefor; (e) such measures to be taken in connection with an election as may be desirable or expedient to ensure that— (i) a person does not cast more than one vote; or - 104 -

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