Registration of Electors Act 1980 · As enacted · Part IV · Revision of Registers
20. Notice of certification of register and commence-ment and period of operation
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On the certification of any register under section 18, the registering officer shall give notice in the Gazette and in at Jeast 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 reasonable 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.
The certified register for any electoral district shall come into operation on the date of the publication in the
Gazette of the notice aforesaid, and subject to such altera-tions, if any, as may subsequently be made therein in accor-dance with section 15 (4) or section 18, such register shall continue to be in operation until superseded by the coming into operation of the next certified register.
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