Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

17.   Register of voters

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    (1)   The local authority shall cause a register to be kept of all persons claiming and entitled to be registered as voters in respect of the district under its jurisdiction.

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    (2)   Any person claiming to be registered as a voter shall before the first day of June in any year deliver or cause to be delivered to the clerk to the local authority a notice of his or her claim to be registered in the form prescribed in Schedule 1 and the clerk shall examine such claim and receive such evidence as may be necessary to prove to his or her satisfaction that a person making the claim possesses the qualifications in respect of which he or she claims to be registered as a voter. On being satisfied, the clerk shall cause his or her name to be entered in the register of voters.

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    (3)   In the month of June in every year the clerk shall examine the register of voters and strike out the names of any persons he or she has grounds to believe are dead and give to any person he or she believes has ceased to retain the qualification in respect of which he or she is registered one month's notice in writing to enable such person to furnish proof of his or her qualification to vote and if such person either fails to furnish proof or furnishes proof which is considered by the clerk to be unsatisfactory then he or she shall strike out the name of such person from the register.

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    (4)   The revised list of voters shall be published in the Gazette in the month of October in each year.

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