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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)
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ELECTIONS ACT
1. Short Title
2. Interpretation
3. Commission and electoral districts
4. Appointment of officers and establishment of offices
5. Duties and functions of registration and other officers
6. Qualification for Voting
7. Qualification for registration
8. Residence requirements
9. Registration and issue of identification cards
10. Lost or defaced identification cards
11. Issue of composite identification cards
12. Verification of register
13. Disqualification for registration
14. Deletions from register
15. Publication of register
16. Register of Police electors, correctional facility electors and fire service electors
17. The 1979 register
18. Omissions in register
19. Claims and objections to registration
20. Revision of register
21. List to be posted at conspicuous places
22. Register to remain in force until next revision
23. Commission may direct preparation of register
24. Effect of register
25. Extension of time
26. Offences
27. Omissions by election officers
28. Polling Divisions
29. Returning Officers
30. Election Clerks
30A. Assistant Election Clerks
31. Substitute Election Clerks
32. Presiding Officers
33. Poll Clerks
33A. Assistant Poll Clerks
34. How oath may be taken
35. Disqualification of election officers from nomination
36. Issue of Writs
37. Notice of time and place for elections
38. Returning Officer to obtain lists of electors
39. Nomination of candidates
40. Disposal of deposit
41. Uncontested elections
42. Adjournment in contested election to take poll
43. Power to adjourn polling day in case of emergency
44. Withdrawal of candidature
45. Taking of poll
46. Establishment of polling stations
47. Supplies of election material
48. Inspection of polling stations by presiding officer
49. Hours of taking the poll
50. Ballot boxes
51. Electors to vote only in polling division where their names appear
52. Elector to vote once in one electoral district
53. Police electors to vote in accordance with Schedule 2
54. Transfer of election officers' votes
55. Where transferred elector to vote
56. Proceedings at poll
57. Entries to be made by poll clerk
58. Admission into polling station
59. Mode of taking ballot
60. Mode of taking ballot in special cases
61. Correction of discrepancies
62. Who may be present in polling station
62A. Use of mobile phone at polling station
63. Proceedings after poll
64. Agents
65. Final counting of votes
66. Provisions applicable where ballot boxes not returned
67. Declaration of the poll
68. Election return
69. Penalty for delay, neglect or refusal of returning officer to return elected candidate
70. Election documents to be sent to Clerk of the House
71. Custody of ballot boxes
72. Intoxicating liquor not to be sold supplied or given on polling day
73. Employers to allow employees prescribed period for voting
74. Offences by election officers
75. Loudspeakers, ensigns, banners etc. prohibited on polling day
76. Order at polling stations
77. Influencing electors to vote
78. Bribery
79. Treating
80. Undue influence
81. Personation
82. Penalty for bribery, treating, under influence, personation
83. Penalty for certain illegal practices
84. Offences in respect of ballot papers
85. Secrecy
86. Offences re voting by police electors
87. Name and address of printer on election publications
88. Petition against disputed election
89. Presentation of petition and security for costs
90. Trial of election petition
91. Voter not to disclose how he or she voted
92. Non-compliance with rules etc. when not to invalidate election
93. Expenses to be paid out of Consolidated Fund
94. Statutory Instruments
95. Savings
Schedule 1
Schedule 2
Schedule 3
Schedule 4