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Electoral Act, 1998 (Act No. 73 of 1998)

Chapter 2 : Registration of Voters' and Voters' Roll

7. Applications for registration as voter

 

 

(1) A person applying for registration as a voter must do so in person —
(a) in the prescribed manner; and
(b) only for the voting district in which that person is ordinarily resident.

[subsection (1) substitution by No. 3 (a) of Act No. 18 of 2013 Government Gazette 37069]

 

2) ....

[subsection (2) deletion by No. 2 (b) of Act No. 18 of 2013 Government Gazette 37069]

 

(3)
(a) A person is regarded to be ordinarily resident at the home or place where that person normally lives and to which that person regularly returns after any period of temporary absence.
(b) For the purpose of registration on the voters' roll a person is not regarded to be ordinarily resident at a place where that person is lawfully imprisoned or detained, but at the last home or place where that person normally lived when not imprisoned or detained.

[Sub-section (3) added by section 93 of Act No. 27 of 2000.]