(1) Where a person who is being registered is unable to read or write the registration officer or enumerator shall, subject to sub-regulation (2) read over to him or her the contents of his or her registration record card.
(2) Before reading over the contents of a registration record card, the registration officer shall inform the person who is being registered, that the contents thereof will, should he or she so desire, be read over to him or her in the presence of a witness of his or her own choice there present.
(3) If the person being registered informs the registration officer or enumerator that he or she wishes the said contents to be read over to him or her in the presence of a witness of his or her own choice there present the registration officer or enumerator shall read over the said contents to such person in the presence of such witness as is there and then produced by such person or by the registration officer or enumerator with the consent of such person.
(4) Where a person who is being registered is unable to sign his or her name because of illiteracy or physical disability he or she shall subject to subregulation (5) make a mark or impression in ink on the Master Registration Card and on the Polling Station Card which impression may be made in the following ways—
(a) with his or her right thumb; or
(b) with his or her left thumb should he or she not have a right thumb; or
(c) with any other finger should he or she not have any thumb.
(5) Where such person has no finger on either hand, the Master Registration Record Card and the Polling Station Card may be signed for and on behalf of the applicant by a person of his or her choice there present in the presence of a registration officer or enumerator.
(6) Where an impression is made under subregulation (4) with a finger other than the right thumb the registration officer or enumerator shall make a note of the finger with which it is made upon the Master Record Registration Card and the Polling Station Card of the person who made such impression.