| (1) |
A person whose name does not a appear on the certified segment of the voters' roll for a voting district and who applied for registration as a voter before the date the election was proclaimed may submit to the presiding officer of the voting station for that voting district— |
| (a) |
his or her identity document; |
| (b) |
a sworn or solemnly affirmed statement in the prescribed form containing— |
| (i) |
his or her full name, identity number and date of birth; |
| (ii) |
his or her finger print; |
| (iii) |
the address where he or she ordinarily resides; |
| (iv) |
a declaration that he or she applied for registration as a voter before the date of publication of the proclamation proclaiming the election; |
| (v) |
a request that his or her name should be included in the certified segment of the voters' roll for that voting district for the purposes of the election for the National Assembly and also for the purposes of the election for the provincial legislature if he or she had so applied for registration in the province in which that voting district is situated; and |
| (vi) |
a declaration that he or she is a South African citizen, is 18 years of age or older and is not disqualified from voting in the election in question; and |
| (c) |
proof that he or she applied for registration as a voter before the date of publication of the proclamation. |
| (2) |
If the presiding officer is satisfied that the contents of the statement are correct— |
| (a) |
the presiding officer must make an endorsement to that effect on the statement; and |
| (b) |
the person making the request contemplated in subsection (1)( b)(v) must be regarded as having been registered as a voter on the certified segment of the voters' roll for the voting district requested for the purposes of the election for the National Assembly and also for the purposes of the election for the provincial legislature if that person had applied for registration in the province where that voting station is situated. |
[section (24A) insertion by No. 7 of Act No. 34 of 2003 Government Gazette 25687]
Contingency Fees Act, 1997
