(1) The registration officer for an electoral district shall consider all applications for registration as electors made to them by persons in the district who have been previously refused by enumerators.
(2) The registration officer shall give notice to a person who claims that his or her registration has been refused by an enumerator in the form as set out as Form 9 in the Schedule. The notice shall be given by registered post or by hand not less than 2 clear days before the application is to be heard and shall state the time and place at which the application shall be heard.
(3) The applicant shall appear in person at the office of the registration officer.
(4) The registration officer shall permit the applicant and witnesses to be heard, and the registration officer may summon such witnesses and may order the production of such documents which he or she may consider necessary.
(5) The registration officer may require that the evidence given by any person shall be upon oath.
(6) The registration officer shall make a decision on the application confirming or reversing the enumerator's decision.
(7) Where the registration officer has refused an application for registration or has confirmed an enumerator's decision refusing an application for registration, the applicant or the registration officer may refer the matter to the Chief Registration Officer.
(8) The registration officer shall make and keep a record of all evidence taken and all documents produced during the hearing of an application under this regulation and shall transmit to the Chief Registration Officer all records and documents produced together with his or her decision in respect of the application and his or her reasons therefor.
(9) The Chief Registration Officer shall make a decision which shall be final upon any application for registration and may vary or confirm any decision upon an application made by a registration officer.
(10) If the Chief Registration Officer disallows any application for registration he or she shall issue to the applicant a notice of refusal in the form set out as Form 8 in the Schedule and keep a duplicate copy of such notice together with the records and other documents submitted to him or her by the registration officer relative to the application.