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REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2010

THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT)
ACT, 2010
NO. 36 OF 2010
[21st September, 2010.]
An Act further to amend the Representation of the People Act, 1950.
BE it enacted by Parliament
in the Sixty-first Year of the Republic of India as
follows:--
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the
Representation of the
People (Amendment)
Act, 2010.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification
in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Insertion of new section 20A. - In the Representation of the People Act, 1950
(hereinafter referred
to as the principal Act), after section 20, the following section shall
be inserted, namely:--
"20A. Special provisions for citizens
of India residing outside India. - (1)
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every citizen of India,--
(a) whose name is
not included in the electoral roll;
(b) who has not acquired the citizenship of any other country; and
(c) who is absenting from
his place of ordinary residence in India owing to
his employment, education or otherwise outside India (whether temporarily or
not),
shall be entitled to have his name registered in the electoral roll in the constituency
in which his place of residence in India
as mentioned in his passport is located.
(2) The time within which the name of persons referred to in sub-section (1)
shall be registered
in the electoral roll and the manner and procedure for registering
of a person in the electoral roll under sub-section (1) shall
be such as may be
prescribed.
(3) Every person registered under this section shall, if otherwise eligible to
exercise his franchise,
be allowed to vote at an election in the constituency.".
3. Amendment of section 22. - In section 22 of the principal Act,--
(a)
after the words "amend, transpose or delete the entry", the words "after
proper verification of facts in such manner as may be prescribed"
shall be inserted;
(b) in the proviso, after the words "proposed to be taken in relation to him", the
words "after proper verification
of facts in such manner as may be prescribed" shall
be inserted.
4. Amendment of section 23. - In section 23 of the principal Act,
in sub-section (2),--
(a) after the words "direct his name to be included therein", the words "after proper
verification of facts
in such manner as may be prescribed" shall be inserted;
(b) in the proviso, after the words "strike off the applicant's name in that
roll", the
words "after proper verification of facts in such manner as may be prescribed" shall
be inserted.
5. Amendment of section
28. - In section 28 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), after
clause (h), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:--
``(hh) the procedure for proper verification of facts for amending, transposing
or deleting any entry in the electoral rolls, under
section 22;
(hhh) the procedure for proper verification of facts for inclusion of or striking
off, names in the electoral rolls,
under sub-section (2) of section 23;".
V. K. BHASIN,
Secy. to the Govt. of India.