ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ advice of the Commission, may at any time, by proclamation in the Gazette, order that there shall be a new registration of voters— (a) in all wards and constituencies; or (b) in such wards or constituencies as are specified in the proclamation; and in the proclamation the President shall fix— (c) the day upon which the new registration shall begin; and (d) the latest day upon which claims and applications for registration shall be received, which day shall not be less than sixty days and not more than six months after the day fixed in terms of paragraph (c). (2) Where a proclamation is published in terms of subsection (1)— (a) section 17A (“Continuous registration”) shall continue to apply and operate alongside the new registration of voters: Provided that when a new voters roll is produced after the conclusion of a new registration of voters ordered by the proclamation, such roll shall, with effect from such date as the Commission shall fix by notice in the Gazette, be the definitive voters roll on the basis of which the continuous registration of voters in terms of section 17A shall be conducted; and (b) the day fixed in the proclamation as the latest day upon which claims and applications for registration shall be received may be postponed by the Commission by notice in the Gazette to a day not later than one hundred and eighty-one days from the firstmentioned day. (3) … [Subsection repealed by s. 15 of Act No. 6 of 2018 with effect from 14.9.2017] (4) … [Subsection repealed by s. 15 of Act No. 6 of 2018 with effect from 14.9.2017] (5) … [Subsection repealed by s. 15 of Act No. 6 of 2018 with effect from 14.9.2017] [Section inserted by s. 9 of Act No. 3 of 2012 and amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 36B Proof required for removal from voters roll on death or absence If a voter registration officer acting in terms of section 27 or 33, or a voter who lodges an objection in terms of section 28, seeks to remove a voter from the voters roll on the ground that the voter— (a) is dead; or (b) has been absent from his or her constituency for a period of twelve months or longer and is not a voter who was registered with the approval of the Commission in a constituency in which he or she was not resident; or [Paragraph amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (c) has left Zimbabwe with the intention of residing permanently outside Zimbabwe; and the voter registration officer or objecting voter produces to a designated magistrate or a judge in chambers, as the case may be, any of the following— (d) a death certificate or authenticated copy thereof relating to the voter sought to be removed; or (e) a sworn statement by the mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter or other direct descendant of the voter sought to be removed that the voter is dead, or absent for the reason mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c); or (f) a sworn statement by the councillor, Chief, headman or village head of the area or village where the voter sought to be removed last resided, that the voter is dead; then it shall be presumed, in the absence of any other reliable evidence, that the ground thus put forward is established. 44