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1918. Correction of lists.

23. The registration officer shall make such additions and corrections in the electors lists (including the absent voters list) as are required in order to carry out his decisions on any objections or claims, and shall also make any such corrections in those lists by way of the removal of duplicate entries (subject to any expression of choice by the person affected as to those entries), the expunging of the names of persons who are dead or subject to any legal incapacity, or the placing of marks or the correction of marks placed against the name of an elector, or otherwise as he thinks necessary in order to secure that no person is registered as a parliamentary elector in respect of more than one qualification in the same constituency, or as a local government elector in respect of more than one qualification—

(a) in the same borough for the purpose of borough council elections; or

(b) in the same electoral division or ward for the purpose of county council, metropolitan borough council, and urban district council elections; or

(c) in the same parish or ward of a parish for the purpose of rural district council, guardians, or parish elections;

and otherwise to make those lists complete and accurate as a register.

Voting in different polling districts.

24. Any person whose name shall appear in the list of parliamentary voters of any registration unit in any county constituency or district of boroughs, and who resides outside the polling district in which he is entitled to be registered, shall be at liberty to make his claim before the registration officer to vote at any other polling place within the same constituency.

Any such person shall be admitted to vote at such polling place accordingly.

Objections to corrections.

25. Where the registration officer makes any correction in the lists( including the absent voters list) otherwise than in pursnance of a claim or objection, or for the purposes of correcting a clerical error, he shall give notice to the person affected by the correction, and give that person an opportunity of objecting to the correction, and, if necessary, of being heard with respect thereto.

Formation of lists into register.

26. The registration officer shall make all the necessary corrections of the lists ( including the absent voters list) and do every thing necessary to form those lists into a register (with a separate letter and a separate series of numbers for each polling district) in time to allow the publication of the lists so corrected as a register as required by these rules.

Duty to publish and deliver Copies of the Register.

Publication of register.

27. It shall be the duty of the registration officer to publish the spring register not later than the fifteenth day of April, and the autumn register register not later than the fifteenth day of October in each year, by publishing a notice that a copy of the register is open to inspection at his office, and that copies of the part of the register relating to any registration unit are open to inspection during business hours in the registration unit at the place mentioned in the notice.

It shall be the duty of the registration officer to keep copies of the register for inspection in his office, and also to arrange for copies of the part of the register relating to any registration unit being kept for inspection in that unit either in the principal post office (if the Postmaster General gives authority for the purpose) or at some other convenient place to which the public have access to be arranged by him.

It shall be the duty of the registration officer to transmit a copy of the register, as soon as may be after it is published, to the Local Government Board.