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PART I. Compulsory Registration of Electors. 2. Save as otherwise provided in this Act, every person qualified to be registered as an elector for any district (whether or not he is registered as an elector at the commencement of this Act) shall forthwith after the commencement, of this Act, or after he first becomes qualified to be registered as an elector, make application in the prescribed form to the Registrar of the district for registration as an elector of that district. 3. (1.) Every person qualified to be registered as an elector for any district who fails for four months after the commencement of this Act, or after the date on which he thereafter becomes qualified to be registered as an elector for that district, to become so registered shall be guilty of an offence unless he proves that he duly applied for registration, or that his failure to apply for registration was not due to wilful default. (2.) Every such offence shall be a continuing offence until application for registration has been duly made. (3.) Every person who commits an offence against this section shall be liable to a fine of five shillings on|a first conviction and to a fine of twenty shillings on any subsequent conviction. 4. (1.) Every registered elector who, while remaining resident within an electoral district, changes his place of residence within that district, and who has failed for two months to notify the Registrar of his new address, commits an offence which shall be a continuing offence while such default continues. (2.) Every person who commits an offence against this section shall be liable to a fine oifive shillings on a first conviction, and to a fine of twenty shillings on any subsequent conviction. 5. A registered elector who has changed his residence within the district as aforesaid shall not be disqualified from voting at an election for that district, notwithsta-nding that he has not given notice of such change of address as hereinbefore required. 6. (1.) A person who is registered as an elector of any district shall not be deemed to have forfeited his qualification for registration as an elector of that district by reason of absence therefrom unless he becomes registered in another district or is qualified to become so registered. (2.) It shall be the duty of every registered elector who may be temporarily absent from the district for a period of not less than three months to give notice of his absence to the Registrar before the expiry of the said period. 7. Every Registrar of Births and Deaths shall forthwith after the registration of the death of any adult person notify the Registrar of Electors of the district in which the deceased person resided of the fact of the death, together with such particulars known to the Registrar of Births and Deaths as may be required to enable the Registrar of Electors to amend the roll if necessary. 8. (1.) Every Registrar of Marriages, forthwith after receipt of a notice given pursuant to the Marriage Act, .1908, of the intended marriage of any woman registered as an elector of any district, shall send notice thereof to the Registrar of Electors of that district. _M (2.) On receipt of such notice the Registrar of Electors shall take all proper steps, after verification of the particulars contained in the notice, to amend the roll if necessary. (3.) If for any reason such alteration, is in the roll|before the issue of the writ, the elector shall, if otherwise;^ualified, be entitled to vote in respect of her former name as appearing on the roll.

Compulsory registration of electors.

Penalty for failure to register.

Changes of address to be notified.

Elector not disqualified for ■ failure to notify change of address.

Temporary absence from district not a disqualification.

Notification of death of registered elector.

Notification of marriages for purpose of amending rolls.