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The General Elections (Amendment) Act (Act No. Vii Of 2009)

ACT No. VII of 2009

AN ACT to amend the General Elections Act, Cap. 354

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

Short title.

Amendment of article

77 of the principal

Act.

1. The short title of this Act is the General Elections (Amendment) Act, 2009 and this Act shall be construed as one with the General Elections Act, hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”.

2. Immediately after subarticle (3) of article 77 of the principal

Act, there shall be added the following new subarticle:

“Voting before polling day.

(3A) (a) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Act or of any other law, every registered voter who is entitled to vote at a general election, at an election of Members of the European Parliament or at a Local Council election and who is entitled to receive the voting document and who declares on oath before the Electoral Commission or such other persons appointed by the Commission to act instead of the Commissioners that he will not be in Malta on the day of the election,

VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA

shall be entitled to cast his vote at the place indicated in paragraph (a) of subarticle (3) of this article between
7.00am and 10.00pm seven days before polling day.
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(a):
(b) The sworn declaration referred to in paragraph
(i) may be made, as of right, until noon of the Friday immediately preceeding the day established for voting before polling day in accordance with paragraph (a), and
(ii) shall be made in such form and in accordance with such procedure as the Electoral Commission may require.
(c) All the provisions of this Act applicable to voting by Assistant Commissioners shall, without prejudice to this subarticle, be applied mutatis mutandis to registered voters entitled to vote before polling day in accordance with paragraph (a):
Provided that any person who takes the oath as aforesaid and who did not receive his voting document, shall be given, by the Commission or persons nominated by the Commission to act on behalf of the Commissioners, such document when such person takes such oath; or in default, such document may be collected by such person himself from the place designated by the Commission for the purpose of such person voting seven days prior to polling day; provided that such person produces his identity card to the representative of the Commission who is delegated by the Commission for the purpose of delivering such document:
Provided further that a person who, after having made a sworn declaration in accordance with paragraph (a) does not vote on the day established for voting before polling day, shall have the right to vote on polling day.”.
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Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 107 of 30th April, 2009.
louis GAleA

Speaker

PAuline AbelA

Clerk to the House of Representatives

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