(1) It is lawful for the Chief Elections Officer—
(a) to carry out by means of a house to house enumeration such verification as he or she considers necessary for the purpose of ensuring that a person registered at a registration office or centre has been duly registered in regard to his or her place of residence within an electoral district; and
(b) upon reasonable grounds to require any person to produce a birth certificate or other document for the purpose of determining his or her qualification for registration as an elector and the particulars of the registration.
(2) Where it is observed as a result of a house to house enumeration that an elector registered at a registration office or centre does not reside at the place of residence which he or she submitted at the registration office or centre where he or she was registered, the Chief Elections Officer shall by notice published in the Gazette and in a local newspaper so notify the elector and shall after giving him or her an opportunity to be heard, make such correction in the register or supplementary list as may be necessary for the proper registration of that elector.
(3) Where an elector to whom notice has been given under the preceding subsection has failed to appear before the Chief Elections Officer it shall be lawful for the Chief Elections Officer to delete the name of the elector from the register of electors.
(4) Where the Chief Elections Officer is satisfied that the failure of an elector to appear as required under subsection (2) was not due to malice or negligence on the elector's part, he or she shall on being satisfied as to the correctness of the elector's place of residence register him or her as an elector at any time before publication of the Register.