(1) The Minister may make statutory instruments with respect to—
(a) the form of the registers of electors and of the revised list of electors or any other lists required under or in pursuance of this Act in connection with the registration of electors or with any election; (Amended by Act 13 of 2016)
(b) the procedure to be followed in the preparation and the revision of the register of electors and the preparation of the preliminary, supplementary and revised list of electors; the registration of electors employed in any diplomatic service;
(c) the determination for the purpose of the registration of electors of the place of ordinary residence of any person;
(d) the form of identification cards, and the replacement of any of those which are lost, defaced or destroyed and the fees (if any) to be paid for any such replacement;
(e) any matters incidental to this Act relating to the registration of electors;
(f) the remuneration and travelling allowances to be paid to election officers and other persons employed in connection with the registration of electors, and the preparation of any lists of electors;
(g) the duties of and records to be kept by election officers;
(h) the symbols to be used on ballot papers and the mode of assigning them to candidates;
(i) prescribing any matter to be prescribed under this Act;
(j) the variation of the forms set out in this Act and the prescribing of additional forms,
and generally for giving effect to this Act.
(2) The incidental matters referred to in subsection (1)(e) may include the time and manner of preparation and publication of any list or register of electors and the form of and the making and determination of claims and objections.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1)(a) to (1)(d) and subsection (2) statutory instruments made with respect to the matters therein mentioned may contain provisions—
(a) authorising a registration officer to require any person to give information required for the purpose of his or her registration duties;
(b) laying down a timetable for the preparation of any lists or registers of electors and other matters and providing that notices and other documents received by the registration officer out of time may be or shall be disregarded either altogether or for the purpose of a particular register or election;
(c) as to the evidence of age, residence or nationality which may be required in connection with the registration of any person;
(d) as to the evidence which shall or may be required or deemed sufficient or conclusive evidence of a person being subject to any physical incapacity and as to its probable duration;
(e) as to the cases in which a claim or objection may be determined by the registration officer without reference to the Chief Elections Officer and as to the right of any person in any such cases to make written representation to him or her;
(f) authorising the Chief Elections Officer, a registration officer or an enumerator to require the evidence of any person at a hearing before him or her to be given on oath and to administer oaths for the purpose;
(g) requiring copies of the preliminary, supplementary or revised lists of electors or registers of electors and other documents or prescribed parts thereof to be available for inspection by the public at such place as may be prescribed;
(h) authorising or requiring a registration officer to supply to such persons as may be prescribed copies of the preliminary, supplementary or revised lists or registers of electors or other documents or prescribed parts thereof, whether free of charge or on payment of a prescribed fee;
(i) incidental or supplementary to those mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (h).
(4) Statutory instruments made under this section may provide that a person who commits any breach of such statutory instruments commits an offence and upon summary conviction for such offence is liable to—
(a) a fine not exceeding $100;
(b) a term of imprisonment of 3 months; or
(c) both such fine and imprisonment.