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Registration of Electors Act 1980 · As enacted · Part I · Qualifications of Electors
2. Circums-— -. tances — disqualifying for registra+ tion,
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No person shall be qualified to have his name entered or retained in any register of electors for any electoral district (hereinafter referred to as the “ register”) tn any year if such person is subject to any of the disqualifications specified in Article 89 of the Constitution.
Qualifying date for determining age.
-3. The first day of June in any year is hereby prescribed as the qualifying date on which a person should have attain-ed the age of eighteen years to qualify for the purposes of registration as an elector.