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and Elections.

Presidency and is resident therein at the date
of such registration; and :

(e) is not disqualified under the provi-
sions of this Ordinance from being registered
as a voter,

shall be entitled to be registered as a voter and,
when registered, to vote at an election.

(2) No person shall be registered as a voter or
be entitled to vote at an election who has been
sentenced by any courtin Her Majesty’s dominions
or in any territory under Her Majesty’s protection
to death, penal servitude, or imprisonment for a
term exceeding twelve months, and has not either
suffered the punishment to which he was sentenced
or such other punishment as by competent author-
ity may have been substituted for the same or
received a free pardon from Her Majesty.

48. (1) As soon as possible after the
coming into operation of this Ordinance and there-
after in such years as the Commissioner may by
proclamation appoint, in no case being more than
three years after the date of the return of the first
writ at the last preceding general election, a list of
voters (hereinafter in this Ordinance referred to as
‘the preliminary list’) shall be compiled for each
electoral district of all persons entitled under the
provisions of this Ordinance to vote at the election
of a member of the Council for an electoral district.

(2) A preliminary list shall be compiled for
each polling division comprised within an electoral
district.

(3) If for any cause the registering ofhcer
fails to compile the preliminary list for any polling
division so that by reason thereof the Register of
Voters (as described in subsection (3) of section
49) for the electoral district in which such polling
division is comprised cannot be brought into force,
the Register of Voters in force .when the new
Register of Voters should have come into force
shall continue in operation and be deemed to be the
Register of Voters for such electoral district,

VirGIN
IsLNADS.

Compiling list
of voters.