ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) (b) a sworn statement by the employer of the voter or claimant confirming the voter’s or claimant’s address; or (c) a bank statement, hospital bill or envelope with a post marking, bearing the name of the voter or claimant and the voter’s or claimant’s address; or (d) a sworn oral or written statement by the councillor, chief, headman or village head of the area or village where the voter or claimant resides, confirming that the voter or claimant resides in the area or village concerned; or (e) a sworn written statement by a property owner on whose property the voter or claimant resides; “province” means an area of Zimbabwe declared as such in terms of the Provincial Councils and Administration Act [Chapter 29:11] or any other law substituted for the same; “qualified”, in relation to a person claiming or entitled to be registered as a voter for a constituency, means qualified to be a voter in that constituency in accordance with paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the Constitution and section twenty-three, and “disqualification” shall be construed accordingly; “registered”, in relation to a voter, means registered in terms of Part V for the purpose of voting at an election; “Registrar-General of Voters” means the Registrar-General of Voters referred to in section eighteen; “registration office” means the office of the Registrar-General of Voters or any office of a constituency registrar; “responsible authority” means, in relation to— (a) a council, the town clerk or chief executive officer of the local government body concerned, or any person acting in that capacity, as the case may be; (b) a statutory body, the board or other body responsible for the governance of the statutory body concerned, or, if that board or body is not appointed at the time anything is required to be done by it under this Act, the chief executive officer of that statutory body by whatever name he or she may be styled; “Speaker’’ means the Speaker of the House of Assembly; “statutory body” means— (a) any Commission established by the Constitution; (b) any body corporate established directly by or under any Act of Parliament for special purposes specified in that Act, the membership of which consists wholly or mainly of persons appointed by the President, a Vice-President, a Minister, any other statutory body or by a Commission established by the Constitution; “voter” in relation to an election to the office of President or to Parliament or to a governing body of a local authority, means a person entitled to vote at that election by virtue of being registered as a voter; “voters registration certificate” means a certificate of registration as a voter issued in - 15 -