PART II

FORM OF ELECTORAL ROLL

Registration areas and registration units

3. (1) Each Parliamentary constituency unit consists of the State constituency and the polling district and shall constitute a registration area.

(2) Each polling district shall constitute a separate registration unit in a registration area.

(3) The principal electoral roll or the supplementary electoral roll shall be framed in separate parts for each registration unit in the registration area.

Separate letter for each registration unit

4. There shall be a separate letter or letters or number or numbers, or both, for each registration unit and such letter or letters or number or numbers, or both, shall be deemed to form part of an elector's number in the principal electoral roll or the supplementary electoral roll.

Entitlement to vote

5. Any registered voter shall be entitled to vote at a Parliamentary or State election.

Order of names

6. (1) The names in the principal electoral roll or the supplementary electoral roll for each registration unit shall be arranged in such manner as the Registrar may determine and shall be numbered in accordance with the directions of the Chief Registrar.

(2) The names of absent voters or members of any police force established by any written law in force in Malaysia, other than members of the Voluntary Reserve Force, who are entitled under the provisions of any law relating to elections to be postal voters, shall be shown in a separate list for postal voters at the end of each part of the principal electoral roll or supplementary electoral roll in respect of each registration unit in which such persons are qualified to be registered as electors.

Alteration of boundaries of constituencies

7. Where in any year prior to the certification of the principal electoral roll or the supplementary electoral roll under these Regulations, the boundaries of any Parliamentary or State constituency are altered by the Election Commission in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Constitution-

(a) the principal electoral roll last certified or the supplementary electoral roll last certified, of the registration area in such constituency, shall remain valid until the next certification of the principal electoral roll or the supplementary electoral roll;

(b) the Chief Registrar may-

(i) make such necessary transfers of particulars of registered electors in the principal electoral roll or the supplementary electoral roll;

(ii) make such other changes to, or give such directions in relation to, the principal electoral roll or the supplementary electoral roll as he may deem necessary or expedient in order to give effect to the alteration; and

(iii) give such further certificates in such terms as he may deem necessary or expedient.

Use of principal electoral roll or supplementary electoral roll in respect of new delimitation of constituencies for by-election to undissolved Parliament or State Legislative Assembly

8. Where a new delimitation of constituencies has come into force, but the Parliament or any State Legislative Assembly existing prior to such new delimitation coming into force has not yet been dissolved, the certification under these Regulations of the principal electoral roll or the supplementary electoral roll prepared in relation to the new delimitation of constituencies shall be valid for the purpose of any by-election in respect of the Parliament or a State Legislative Assembly which has not yet been dissolved, and the Chief Registrar may give such directions in relation to the principal electoral roll or the supplementary electoral roll as he may deem necessary or expedient for the removal of any difficulty or otherwise, and may also give such further certificate or certificates in such terms as he may deem necessary or expedient, for the purposes of the by-election.

Electoral roll for the purpose of general election or by-election

9. For the purpose of a general election or a by-election, the Election Commission shall determine the last certified principal electoral roll and the supplementary electoral roll, prior to the dissolution of Parliament or a State Legislative Assembly or a vacancy occurring, to be used in the general election or the by-election.