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Local authorities elections (special provisions) Law (No. 24 of 1977) - Sect 6

Amendment of section 7 of the principal enactment

6. Section 7 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-
(1) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection :-
" (1) Every person-
(a) whose name is entered in any parliamentary register for the time being in operation for any electoral district; and
(b) who was, on the first day of June in the year of commencement of the preparation or revision of that parliamentary register, ordinarily resident in any electoral area which is situated wholly or partly within the electoral district,
(2) by the repeal of subsection (3) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:-
'(3) The address at which a person was ordinarily resident in any electoral area on the first day of June in any year is hereafter in this Ordinance referred to as his "qualifying address"'.


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