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Electoral
Act
Modified February
04, 2002
Contents
PART
VI
Registration
of Voters
21. Claims
for registration
22. Claims
for transfer of registration
23. Voters’
registration cards
24. New
registration of voters
21 Claims
for registration
(1) Any person
who wishes to be registered as a voter on the voters’ roll for any constituency
shall complete the appropriate prescribed claim form and lodge it with
the constituency registrar for that constituency: Provided that a claimant
who, in accordance with the proviso to subsection (1) of section 20,
seeks registration in a constituency in which he is not resident shall
lodge his claim form with the Registrar-General.
(2) Where a claimant
seeks registration in a constituency in which he is not resident, he shall
provide the Registrar-General with an address in that constituency where
he shall be deemed to be resident for the purposes of any delimitation
of constituencies in terms of the Constitution.
(3) If, on receipt
of a claim form in which the claimant seeks registration in a constituency
in which he is resident, the constituency registrar is satisfied that
the claimant is entitled to be registered as a voter on the voters’ roll
for that constituency, he shall, pursuant to the claim form and subject
to this Part, enter the claimant’s name and the particulars relating to
him on that voters’ roll.
(4) If, on receipt
of a claim form in which the claimant seeks registration in a constituency
in which he is not resident, the Registrar-General is satisfied that it
is appropriate for the claimant to be registered in that constituency,
he shall direct the appropriate constituency registrar to enter the claimant’s
name and particulars relating to him on the voters’ roll for his constituency.
(5) If a constituency
registrar considers that a claimant should be registered on the voters’
roll for some other constituency, he shall forward the claim to the constituency
registrar for that other constituency and shall advise the claimant accordingly.
(6) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this section, the Registrar-General may direct
any constituency registrar to register on the voters’ roll for his constituency
any person or class of persons who—
(a) is or are
registered in terms of the National Registration Act [Chapter 10:17];
and
(b) the Registrar-General
is satisfied is or are qualified to be registered in terms of this Act;
and the
registration of any such person in accordance with any such direction shall
be valid in all respects as if that person had completed a claim form and
lodged it with the constituency registrar concerned in terms of subsection (1).
(7) The Registrar-General or any constituency registrar may demand from
any claimant proof of identity, proof of qualification as a voter, proof
of residence in a constituency or all or any combination of the foregoing.
[Subsection (7) as inserted by
s. 3 of Act 2 of 2002.]
22 Claims
for transfer of registration
(1) A voter whose
name is registered on the voters’ roll for a constituency and who—
(a) has become resident in another constituency;
or
(b) wishes, for reasons related to his
place of origin, political affiliations or otherwise, to be registered
in another constituency in which he is not resident; may
apply in the prescribed form for the transfer of his name to the voters’
roll for that other constituency and shall submit with his application
the voter’s registration card, if any, issued to him.
(2) An application in terms of subsection (1)
shall be signed by the voter and sent to the constituency registrar for
the constituency for which he is registered: Provided that an application
for a transfer to a constituency in which the applicant is not resident
shall be sent to the Registrar-General for his approval.
(3) Where an applicant seeks transfer
to a constituency in which he is not resident, he shall provide the Registrar-General
with an address in that constituency where he shall be deemed to be resident
for the purposes of any delimitation of constituencies in terms of the
Constitution.
(4) On receipt of an application in terms
of subsection (1) in which the applicant seeks transfer to a constituency
in which he is resident, the constituency registrar, if satisfied that
the applicant is entitled to the transfer, shall—
(a) remove the applicant’s name from
the voters’ roll for his constituency; and
(b) forward the applicant’s name and
particulars to the constituency registrar for the constituency to which
the applicant has applied to be transferred.
(5) On receipt of an applicant’s name
and particulars forwarded to him in terms of subsection (4) a constituency
registrar, if satisfied that the application is in order, shall register
the applicant on the voters’ roll for his constituency and, as soon as
he has done so, notify the voter thereof. (6) If, on receipt of an
application in terms of subsection (1) in which the applicant seeks
transfer to a constituency in which he is not resident, the Registrar-General
is satisfied that it is appropriate for the applicant to be registered
in that constituency, he may direct—
(a) the constituency registrar for
the constituency in which the applicant is registered to remove the
applicant’s name from the voters’ roll for his constituency and forward
the applicant’s name and particulars to the constituency registrar for
the constituency to which the applicant has applied to be transferred;
and
(b) the constituency registrar of the
constituency to which the applicant has applied to be transferred, on
receipt of the applicant’s name and particulars forwarded to him in
terms of paragraph (a), to register the applicant on the voters’
roll for his constituency and, as soon as he has done so, to notify
the voter thereof; and the constituency
registrars concerned shall comply with any such direction.
23 Voters’
registration cards
(1) Subject to
subsection (3), on the registration of a voter in terms of this Part
the constituency registrar shall furnish him with a voter’s registration
card in the prescribed form.
(2) Subject to
subsection (3), on the transfer of the registration of a voter in
terms of section 22 the voter shall be issued with a voter’s registration
card by the constituency registrar of the constituency to which he has
been transferred.
(3) If a voter
has applied for registration in terms of the National Registration Act
[Chapter 10:17] and been issued with—
(a) a notice in writing in terms of
subsection (1) of section 7 of that Act; or
(b) an identity document in terms of
subsection (2) of section 7 of that Act; he
need not be furnished or issued with a voter’s registration card in
terms of this section.
24 New
registration of voters
(1) The President
may at any time, by proclamation in the Gazette, order that there
shall be an entirely new registration of voters and in such proclamation
shall fix—
(a) the day upon which such new registration
shall begin; and
(b) the latest day upon which claims
and applications for registration shall be received, which day shall
be not less than six months after the day fixed in terms of paragraph (a).
(2) Any person who, immediately before
the day of publication of a proclamation in terms of subsection (1),
is registered as a voter on the voters’ roll for any constituency shall
be entitled to be registered on the new voters’ roll for that constituency
without completing a claim form but merely on submission of a written
application in the prescribed form to the constituency registrar for the
constituency in which he was so registered.
(3) Where, during the period between the
dates fixed in terms of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1),
a person described in—
(a) paragraph (a) of subsection (2)
of section 32 or the spouse of such person is residing outside
his constituency in terms of paragraph (a) or (e) of that subsection;
or
(b) paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of
subsection (2) of section 32 or the spouse of such person
is residing outside Zimbabwe in terms of paragraph (b), (c), (d)
or (e) of that subsection; such person
may, in his written application in terms of subsection (2), describe
as his residential address for the purposes of registration on the new
voters’ roll the place at which he was residing immediately before he
ceased to reside in his constituency and he shall be entitled, subject
to this Act, to have his name registered on the new voters’ roll for
the constituency in which such place of residence is situated.
(4) A person who, immediately before the
day of publication of a proclamation in terms of subsection (1),
was registered with the approval of the Registrar-General in a constituency
in which he was not resident may, in his written application in terms
of subsection (2), provide the address which he provided in terms
of subsection (2) of section 21 or subsection (3) of section 22,
as the case may be, and he shall be entitled, subject to this Act, to
have his name registered on the new voters’ roll for the constituency
in which such address is situated.
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