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Niue, Niue Assembly Act 1966, accessed 10 June 2020

16. Application for enrolment by electors

Every person required to apply for registration as an elector shall deliver or send by post to the Registrar in charge of the roll on which the applicant is entitled to have his name entered an application and declaration in form 1.

17. Procedure for registration

(1) Every applicant shall sign his application in the presence of any elector or electoral officer or a Postmaster, who shall add his signature in witness of it.

(2) If the Registrar in charge of the roll is satisfied after due inquiry that any claim for registration as aforesaid is valid, he shall forthwith enter the name of the applicant on the roll.

(3) If the Registrar is not so satisfied, he shall, within 3 working days following the receipt of the application, notify the applicant in writing of his objection to enter the applicant’s name on the roll; and the applicant may, within 3 days of receipt of that notice, apply to the Niue Public Service Commission to determine his claim; and the Niue Public Service Commission, whose decision shall be final, shall order the name of the applicant either to be entered on the roll or not to be so entered, and the Registrar shall comply with the order accordingly.

(4) Every Registrar who enters the name of any applicant on any roll shall forthwith give notice in form 2 to the Registrar of the constituency (if any) for which the applicant has stated that he was previously registered, and the Registrar receiving the notice shall forthwith remove from his roll the name of the  applicant or, as the case may be, inform the Registrar giving the notice that the applicant was not registered on that roll.

(5) It shall be the duty of every Registrar to make the roll of which he is in charge as complete as possible, and with that object to place on it the name of every person who has transmitted an application to the Registrar and of whose qualifications he is satisfied.

(6) It shall further be the duty of every Registrar to assure himself of the right of every registered elector to have his name retained on the roll, and to remove from the roll of which he is in charge the name of every person who –

(a) Has died; or

(b) Is no longer possessed of the qualifications for an elector; or

(c) Ceases to reside within the constituency.

(7) When the Registrar removes any name from the roll under subsection (6)(b) or (c) he shall, within 3 working days, notify the elector that his name has been so removed and thereupon the provisions of subsection (3) shall, as far as applicable and with the necessary modifications, apply.

(8) Every registered elector shall give notice in writing to the Registrar in charge within one month of any change of his or her name by marriage or otherwise; and the Registrar shall, after verification of the particulars contained in the notice, amend the roll accordingly.