(1) On receipt of an application for registration the registration officer or enumerator shall inquire from the applicant whether he or she is already a registered elector and if so proceed to complete the requirements for registration of the elector in the manner and form provided under these Regulations.
(2) Where an applicant for registration has not been previously registered the registration officer or enumerator shall obtain from the applicant all the particulars required under these Regulations and if satisfied that the applicant is entitled to be registered as an elector he or she shall record the same in accordance with these Regulations and shall request the applicant to present himself or herself to an official photographer at the registration office or centre.
(3) A photograph taken for the purpose of registering an elector may be —
(a) with or without negatives;
(b) in the form known as a Polaroid photograph;
(c) in colour or black and white.
(4) On receipt of the applicant's photograph from the official photographer, the registration officer or enumerator shall cause the photograph to be affixed in the space provided on the identification card and after entering the particulars required thereon request the applicant to sign his or her name in the space provided on the identification card. If the applicant is unable to sign his or her name, the registration officer shall insert in the said space, the words “finger-printed”. He or she shall then laminate the identification card and issue the same to the applicant as his or her completed identification card.
(5) The signature of the Chief Registration Officer may be impressed upon an identification card by a registration officer or enumerator by means of a stamp.
(6) A copy of the elector's photograph shall also be affixed in the space provided on the “Master Registration Card” and on the “Polling Station Card”.
(7) The registration officer or enumerator shall—
(a) record in ink on the Master Registration Card and by means of carbon, on the Polling Station Card all the particulars required to be stated thereon;
(b) require the applicant, unless he or she is unable to do so by reason of illiteracy or physical disability to read the Master Registration Card and sign that card in ink and by means of carbon, the Polling Station Card; and
(c) himself or herself sign in ink the Master Registration Card and by means of carbon, the Polling Station Card.