(1) An appeal shall lie within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed before the prescribed authority from any order of the Electoral Registration Officer under Sections l 07, 113 or Section 114.
116. Every application under Section 113 or 114 and every appeal under Section 115 shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee which shall in no case, be refunded.
117. If any person makes in connection with a) the preparation, revision or correction electoral roll ; or
(b) the inclusion or exclusion of any entry in or from an electoral roll :
a statement or declaration in writing which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, he shall be punishable with im prisonment for a term which may extend to two months or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees or with both.
118. No. civil Court shall have jurisdiction
(a) to entertain or adjudicate upon any question whether any person is or is not entitled to be registered in an electoral roll for a constituency ; or
(b) to question the legality of any action taken by or under the authority of the Electoral Registration Officer, or of any decision given by any authority appointed under this Act for the preparation or revision of any such roll.
119. (I) No. person who is not ( except as expressly provided by this Act) entered in the electoral roll of any constituency, shall be entitled to vote at an election in that constituency :
Provided that no person shall vote at an election in any constituency if he;
(a) has been adjudged by a competent court to be unsound mind ;
(b) has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a foreign State : or ( c) has been sentenced by a criminal court for an electoral offence punishable under this Act or has been disqualified under any other law from exercising any electoral right on account of corrupt practices in connection with an election and six years have not elapsed from the date of such sentence or disqualification, provided that the disqualification under this clause may, at any time, be removed by the State Government if it thinks fit.
(2) No person shall vote at an election in more than one constituency and if a person votes in more than one constituency, his vote in all such constituencies shall be void.
(3) No person shall, at any election, vote in the same constituency more than once notwithstanding Appeal.
Fee for application and appeal.
penalty for making declaration Jurisdiction of Civil Courts barred Bar to vote.
that his name may have been registered in the electoral roll for that constituency more than once and if he does so all his votes in that constituency shall be void.
( 4) No person shall vote at any election if he is confined imprison whether under a sentence of imprisonment or otherwise or is under the lawful custody of the Police.
(5) Every elector shall have the right to give only one vote in a constituency where the number of member to be elected is one.