ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) register the claimant on the appropriate voters roll or strike the voter’s name off the voters roll, as the case may be; (b) notice of appeal is duly given— (i) the constituency registrar shall, unless he or she withdraws his or her objection, forthwith set down the objection for hearing before a designated magistrate of the province in which the claimant or voter resides; and (ii) the designated magistrate shall appoint a day and place for the hearing, the day so appointed being not more than thirty days after the date of receipt of the notice of appeal from the constituency registrar. (4) The constituency registrar shall give written notice to the appellant of the day and place appointed for the hearing. (5) A notice of appeal shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee. (6) The appellant may withdraw his or her appeal on written notice to the constituency registrar, and, if the objection has been set down in terms of subsection (3) for hearing, the constituency registrar shall notify the designated magistrate of such withdrawal. (7) Notwithstanding this section, where a claimant or voter has ceased to be a citizen of Zimbabwe and thereby ceases to be entitled to vote in terms of subparagraph (3) of paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the Constitution, it shall not be necessary to send a notice of objection to a claimant or voter before rejecting his or her claim for registration or striking his or her name off the voters roll, as the case may be, if the constituency registrar— (a) publishes a notice of such striking-off in the Gazette or in a newspaper circulating in the area of the constituency concerned; and (b) gives written notice to the claimant or voter concerned that his or her claim for registration is incompetent or his or her name has been or is to be struck off the voters roll because he or she has ceased to be a citizen of Zimbabwe. 28 Objections by voters (1) A voter may object to the retention of any name on the voters roll of the constituency in which the objecting voter is registered, and to the removal of his or her name from the voters roll in terms of section 33(4). (2) An objection in terms of subsection (1) shall be— (a) in writing, setting forth the grounds of the objection; and (b) lodged in duplicate with the constituency registrar; and (c) accompanied by the prescribed fee. (3) If an objection in terms of subsection (1) is lodged and— (a) the constituency registrar upholds the objection, he or she shall give written notice accordingly to— (i) the voter who has objected; and (ii) the person to whom the objection relates, where the effect of upholding the objection is to strike his or her name off the voters roll or to place it on another voters roll; - 25 -