Duties of constituency elections officers and polling officers when rolls printed
16.(1) The Commission shall arrange for every constituency elections officer and presiding
officer to be furnished with a copy of the rolls for that election, and every constituency elections
officer shall permit every candidate to examine, for such period as the constituency elections
officer considers expedient in the circumstances, a copy of the rolls for that election
(2) At the election, the presiding officer may himself or herself, and if so required by a
candidate or his or her chief election agent or election agent shall, before allowing a person to
vote—
(a) require the person to exhibit his or her proof of identity; and/or
(b) put to him or her such questions as the presiding officer considers necessary to enable
the presiding officer to be satisfied that the person is qualified to vote;
and if the person does not—
(d) comply with paragraph (a); or
(e) answer any question put to him or her under paragraph (b) to the satisfaction of the
presiding officer;
he or she shall not be handed a ballot-paper:
Provided that—
(i) no voter shall be disqualified from voting solely on the grounds that his or her answer to
any question put to him or her under paragraph (b) indicates that he or she has changed
his or her name or address or both;
(ii) in the case of a change of name, the voter may be asked to produce proof of the same in
the form of an affidavit, deed poll or notice of change of name in the Gazette.
(4) The presiding officer at the polling-station shall ascertain, by reference to the roll for the
constituency, that the person claiming to vote is a person enrolled on that roll and, having
ascertained that he or she is so enrolled and his or her number on the roll, the presiding officer
shall—
(a) mark the ballot-paper with the official mark and hand it to the person claiming the vote;
and
(b) draw a line through the number and surname of the voter on the roll as evidence that the
voter has received a ballot-paper.
(5) Immediately after the count, the presiding officer shall make up into a separate packet
and seal in accordance with the provisions of section 69(1)(b) of the Act the marked copies of the
roll and shall forthwith deliver or cause it to be delivered to the constituency elections officer.
(6) In relation to postal ballot papers—
(a) it shall not be necessary for the application to be accompanied by the voters registration
certificate of the applicant;
(b) the constituency elections officer shall draw a line through the number and surname of
the voter in a copy of the roll, certified as correct by the Chief Elections Officer, as
evidence that the voter has been issued with the postal ballot paper to which he or she is
entitled but without showing the particular ballot paper issued to him or her.
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