REFERENDUMS ACT (as amended at 1st September 2010) 10 Application of Cap. 2:01 Subject to this Act, the Electoral Act and the regulations made thereunder shall apply to any referendum, in so far as they can appropriately be applied to it, as if the referendum were a general election held following a dissolution of Parliament, and for that purpose– (a) any reference in the Electoral Act to an election shall be construed as a reference to a referendum; (b) any reference in the Electoral Act to candidates and to candidates’ election agents or polling agents shall be disregarded; (c) any forms used for the purposes of the Electoral Act may be used for the purposes of a referendum, with or without modification. 11 Regulations (1) The Commission may by regulation prescribe anything which, in his opinion, is required or permitted to be prescribed or which, in its opinion, is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act. [Subsection as amended by section 3 of Act 22 of 2004] (2) Regulations made in terms of subsection (1) may provide for— (a) the form of ballot papers; (b) the establishment of polling stations outside the constituencies for which they are established, where voters who are not physically present in the constituencies in which they are registered or entitled to be registered, as the case may be, may cast their votes; (c) the establishment of multi-constituency polling stations, that is to say, polling stations where voters may vote if they are registered or entitled to be registered in any of two or more constituencies; (d) such modifications or adaptations of the Electoral Act or the regulations made thereunder as the Commission considers necessary or expedient to give effect to this Act and for its proper administration. (3) Regulations made in terms of subsection (1) shall not have effect until they have been approved by the Minister and published in the Gazette. [Subsection inserted by section 3 of Act 22 of 2004] -4-