PRESIDENTIAL, PARLIAMENTARY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

CHAPTER 2:01
PRESIDENTIAL, PARLIAMENTARY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS

    3.    Eligibility for registration

    4.    Voter registration

    5.    Right and duty to register

    6.    Duty to promote registration

    7.    Single registration

    8.    Place of registration and transfers

    9.    Registration officers

    10.    Registration centres

    11.    Voters register

    12.    Evidence of a person’s eligibility to register

    13.    Registration and issue of voter’s registration certificate

    14.    Updating of voters register

    15.    Deregistration of a voter

    16.    Monitoring of registration by political parties and independent candidates

    17.    Rights and duties of representatives of political parties and independent candidates

    18.    Suspension of registration of voters

    19.    Application to change registration details

    20.    Publication of voters register

    21.    Inspection of voters register before elections

PART III
CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS

Division 1
General

    22.    General elections

    23.    By-elections

    24.    Appointment of returning officers

    25.    Election representatives

    26.    Powers and duties of an election representative

Division 2
Conduct for election to the office of President

    27.    Notice of election to the office of President

    28.    Nominations of presidential candidates

    29.    Nomination fees

    30.    Publication of names of presidential candidates

    31.    Withdrawal of candidates for election to the office of President

    32.    Extension of period for nomination of candidate for election to the office of President

    33.    Holding of fresh nominations for presidential candidates and replacement of running mates

    34.    Publication of notice of poll

    35.    Second poll in a presidential election and security for candidates

Division 3
Conduct for elections of members of the National Assembly and councillors

    36.    Notice of elections for members of the National Assembly and councillors

    37.    Nomination of candidates

    38.    Qualifications for nomination for election as Members of the National Assembly or councillors

    39.    Submission of nomination papers

    40.    Nomination fees

    41.    Invalid nominations

    42.    Rejected nominations

    43.    No nomination of candidate

    44.    Publication of names of candidates for election as member of the National Assembly or councilor

    45.    Procedure for uncontested election

    46.    Procedure when poll to be held

    47.    Special provisions with respect to by-elections

    48.    Withdrawal of a candidate

    49.    Death of a candidate

PART IV
CAMPAIGN FOR ELECTION

    50.    Campaigning by political parties and candidates

    51.    Campaign period

    52.    Equal treatment of candidates

    53.    Freedom of expression and information

    54.    Freedom of assembly

    55.    Ethical norms during campaign

    56.    Prohibited places of campaigning

    57.    News broadcasts and reports

    58.    Publication of campaign materials

    59.    Campaign financing

    60.    Prohibition on contributions

    61.    Prohibition on use of public resources

PART V
POLLING STATIONS

    62.    Polling stations

    63.    Polling station officers

    64.    Working hours for polling station officers

    65.    Work items for polling station officers

    66.    Security of items at polling stations

    67.    Monitoring of voting by political parties and candidates

    68.    Rights and duties of representatives of political parties and candidates

PART VI
THE VOTE AND VOTING PROCESS

    69.    Ballot papers

    70.    Voting booth

    71.    Ballot boxes

    72.    Right to vote

    73.    Right of employees to be released to vote

    74.    Place of voting

    75.    Requirement for exercising the right to vote

    76.    Identification of voters

    77.    Voting hours

    78.    Procedure before commencement of voting

    79.    Order of voting

    80.    Continuity of the voting process

    81.    Adjournment in certain cases

    82.    Prohibited presence, etc., at a polling station

    83.    Procedure for casting votes

    84.    Voting by persons with disabilities

    85.    Issuance of a new ballot paper

    86.    Doubts and complaints

    87.    Definition of void vote

PART VII
DETERMINATION OF RESULTS OF ELECTIONS

    88.    Structures for determining results

    89.    Unused ballot papers

    90.    Classification of votes

    91.    Opening of ballot boxes and counting of votes

    92.    Record of the polling process

    93.    Delivery of ballot papers, etc., from polling stations

    94.    Compilation of the district result of the elections

    95.    Determination of the national result of a general election

    96.    Analysis of complaints, etc., prior to determination of the national result

    97.    Records of the national result of a general election

    98.    Publication of the national result

PART VIII
COMPLAINTS AND APPEALS

    99.    Commission to decide on complaints

    100.    Appeals to the High Court

PART IX
ELECTION PETITIONS

    101.    Election petitions

PART X
OBSERVATION

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