Legislative Coimncil (Elections).


 sentenced or such other punishment as may by competent
 authority have been substituted therefore or received a free
 pardon; or
 (b) is a person adjudged to be of unsound- mind or detained
 as a criminal lunatic under any law in force in the Colony;
 or
 (c) is disqualified for registration as an elector by .any law in
 force in the Colony relating to qffences connected with
 elections.


 /PART II.

 REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS.

 6. (1) As soon as possible after the coming into operation of this
 Compiling lists Ordinance and in s\ich years as the Governor by proclamation may
 of electors, appoint, in no case being more than three years after the-date of
 the last preceding general election of members of the Legislative
 Council, lists of electors shall be compiled in each electoral district
 of all persons entitled under the provisions of this Ordinance to
 vote at the election of a member of the Legislative Council for
 such district.

 (2) A list of electors shall be compiled for each polling
 division comprised within an electoral district and shall come into
 force on such date as the Governor may by proclamation appoint
 and shall remain in force until the list of electors next compiled
 comes into force.

 (3) If for any reason a registration officer fails to compile a
 list of electors .or any polling division, the list of electors in force
 vhen the fresh list of electors should have come into force shall
 continue in operation as the list of electors for such division.

Polling 7. (1) Subject to- the provisions of subsections (2) and (3)
divisions, of this section, there shall be constituted in each electoral district
 so many polling divisions with such boundaries as the Supervisor
 of Elections shall appoint.

 (2) Each polling division shall so far as practicable, contain
 approximately four hundred and fifty qualified persons.
 (3) Where the Supervisor of Elections is satisfied that by
 reason of the congestion or of the sparsity of population or other
 special-circumstances, it is- more convenient so to do, he may,
 notwithstanding anything contained in Jhe last preceding
 subsection, constitute a polling division including either more or
 less than four hundred and fifty qualified persons.
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No. .


1951.