ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) “observer” means a person accredited as an observer in terms of section 6; “office hours”, in relation to the office of a constituency registrar, means the hours on a week-day during which that office is open to members of the public; “payment” includes any pecuniary or other reward; “pecuniary reward” includes any office, place or employment, any valuable security or other equivalent for money and any valuable consideration; “personal expenses”, in relation to a candidate at an election, means the reasonable travelling expenses of that candidate and of his or her chief election agent, if any, and the reasonable expenses of their living at hotels or elsewhere for the purposes of and in relation to that election; “political party” means any political organisation; “polling day”, in relation to— (a) an election to Parliament, means the day or days fixed in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section thirty-eight; (b) an election to the office of President, means any day or days fixed in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and three; “polling officer” means any person appointed in terms of subsection (2) of section fiftytwo to be a polling officer; “polling station” means a polling station referred to in subsection (1) of section fifty-one; “polling-station return” means a return in the prescribed form recording the result of a counting of the votes at a polling station in terms of section sixty-four; “prescribed” means prescribed by the Commission by regulations made in terms of section one hundred and ninety-two; “presiding officer” means any person appointed in terms of subsection (2) of section fifty-two to be a presiding officer; “prohibited symbol” means a symbol or representation declared to be a prohibited symbol in terms of subsection (1) of section one hundred and forty-six; “proof of identity” means a valid Zimbabwe passport, or a notice or identity document issued in terms of section 7 of the National Registration Act [Chapter 10:17], or a valid driver’s licence containing an identity number assigned to the holder thereof under the National Registration Act [Chapter 10:17]; “proof of residence”, in relation to a constituency, means proof by way of⎯ (a) a receipt or demand for payment of any rate in terms of the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15], rate or levy in terms Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13], or charge for the provision of electricity, in the name of the owner of the property concerned (or in the case of an occupier other than the owner, such a receipt or demand in the name of the owner accompanied by a written statement of the owner confirming the occupation of the property by the occupier) or any other satisfactory documentary evidence reasonably establishing the place of residence of the voter or complainant; or - 14 -