ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (4) A voter registration officer shall not remove the name of a voter in terms of subsection (1) or (2) unless he or she published his or her intention to do so in a newspaper circulating in the area of the voter’s last known address and has sent to the voter’s last known address a written notice of objection addressed to the voter, to which a form of notice of appeal has been annexed. [Subsection as amended by s. 26 of Act No. 17 of 2007 and by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (5) The proviso to subsection (l) of, and subsections (2) to (7) of, section twenty-seven and sections twenty-nine and thirty shall apply, with any changes that may be necessary, in relation to the exercise by a voter registration officer of his or her powers in terms of subsection (1) or (2) as though the voter registration officer were taking an objection in terms of subsection (1) of section twenty-seven. [Subsection amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 34 Registration of voter no longer disqualified A person whose name has been removed from a voters roll terms of section thirty-three on the grounds of disqualification may, when no longer disqualified, claim to be registered as a voter. 35 Additional powers to alter voters rolls (1) In addition to other powers of alteration conferred by this Part, a voters roll may be altered— (a) by the Commission at any time to correct any error or omission or to change (whether on the oral or written application of a voter or not) the original name or address of the voter to an altered name or address; [Paragraph amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (b) by the voter registration officer at any time by correcting any obvious mistake or omission, or by changing, on the written application of a voter, the original name or address of the voter to an altered name or address; [Paragraph amended by s. 37 of Act No. 6 of 2018] (c) … [Paragraph repealed by s. 27 of Act No. 17 of 2007] (2) In the case of an alteration in terms of subsection (1) made otherwise than on the oral or written application of a voter, a notice of the alteration shall be published in the Gazette by the Commission or voter registration officer, as the case may be. [Subsection amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (3) A voter who is aggrieved by a decision of the Commission or a voter registration officer under this section may appeal against the decision to a designated magistrate of the province on whose voters roll the voter is or, prior to the alteration, was registered. [Subsection substituted by s. 14 of Act No. 6 of 2018] (4) The form and manner in which an appeal under subsection (3) may be made and heard, and the powers of a designated magistrate in such an appeal shall be as prescribed. [Subsection inserted by s. 14 of Act No. 6 of 2018] 36 How alterations to be made All alterations made in terms of this Part shall be made in such a manner that the original entry on a voters roll or a copy of a voters roll shall not be obliterated and the reason for the alteration and the date thereof shall be set against the alteration, together with the initials of the person making the alteration. 36A New registration of voters (1) Subject to subsection (2) (concerning the non-interruption of continuous registration and the extension of the period of new registration) and subsection (3) (concerning the automatic transfer of voters on a pre-existing voters roll to the new voters roll), the President, on the 43