Registration of Electors Act 1980 · As enacted · Part II · Registering Officers, Polling Divisions
11. Notice of certification of register to be given
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On the certification of a register under section 10
the registering officer shall give notice in the Gazette and in at least one newspaper in each of the National Languages that the register has been certified and that such register or a copy thereof is open for inspection at all reason-able hours of the day at the office of the registering officer or at such other place in the district as may be specified in
- the notice.
A register for any electoral district shall come into operation on the date of the publication in the Gazette of the notice aforesaid, and such register shall continue in operation until superseded by the coming into operation of the next certified register as hereinafter provided.