No.7 of 1954. Virgin Islands Constitution 27
and Elections.

(d) exercise the utmost care in pre-
paring the preliminary list for the electoral
district or polling division for which he has
been appointed. He shall take all necessary
precautions to ensure that the list when
completed contains the name, address and
occupation of every qualified voter in the
said electoral district or polling division,
and that it does not contain the name of any

- person who is not so qualified.

(4) Any registering officer who wilfully
and without reasonable exeuse-—

(w) refuses to prepare the preliminary
list as provided in paragraph (a) of sub-
section (3) of this section; or

(4). omits from the preliminary list the
name of any person entitled to have his
name entered thereon; or

(-) enters on the preliminary list the
name of any person who is not entitled to
have lis name entered thereon,

shall be liable on summary conviction to a
penalty of two hundred and forty dollars, and in
addition to forfeiture of the right to pay ment of
his services as a registering officer.

45. (1) A registering officer shall within
the space of twenty-one days from the appointed
days write down in alphabetical order of their
surnames on the preliminary list in the form set
out as Form No. 2 in the Second Schedule, the
names of all persons residing in the electoral
district or polling division, as the case may be,
for which he is appointed ‘who are entitled to be
registered as voters, and shall cause a copy of
such list dated and signed by him to be
published.

(2) Every preliminary list shall during the
hours of business in each day for a period of ten
days after the publication thereof he open to
inspection of the public tree of charge at such

VIRGIN
ISLANDS.

Penalty.

Preliminary
list.

Form No. 2.