(1) Any person, whose name is not included in the electoral roll shall make an application, in Form-2 (in duplicate), to the District Election Officer (Panchayats) for inclusion of his name in that electoral roll, and such application shall be accompanied by a fee of rupees two to be paid in cash against receipt.
(2) District Election Officer (Panchayats) shall immediately on receipt of application under sub-rule (1) direct that one copy thereof be pasted in some conspicuous place in his office together with a notice inviting objections to such application within a period of four days from the date of such pasting .
2 [(3) The District Election Officer (Panchayats) shall as may be, after the expiry of the period specified in the notice under sub-rule (2), consider the objections, if any, received by him and shall, if satisfied that the applicant is entitled to be registered in the electoral roll, direct such name to be included therein within a period of 3 days:
Provided that if the applicant whose name is ordered to be included is already registered in the electoral roll of any other constituency of the same Gram Sabha or another Gram Sabha or a Municipality, such a name shall be deleted from that electoral roll:
Provided further that an application under this rule at any time after publication of the election programme under rule 32 shall be made to the District Election Officer (Panchayats) not later than 9 days before the last date fixed for the filing of nomination papers:
Provided further that no amendment or transposition or deletion of any entry shall be made on or after the last date for making nomination till the election process is over.]
(4) Where an application made under sub-rule (1), is rejected, an appeal shall be within a period of ten days from the date of rejection of the 1 Substituted for the words ―five days‖ vide Not. No. PCH- HA(1)- 18/2008, dated the 8 th September, 2010, published in Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh, dated 10 th of September, 2010 page . 4456-4467.
2 . Sub-rule 3 substituted vide Not. No. PCH- HA(1)- 18/2008, dated the 8 th September, 2010, published in Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh, dated 10 th of September, 2010 page . 4456-4467.
15 application for the inclusion of names to the State Election Commission, whose decision shall be final.
(5) Every appeal under sub-rule (4) shall be accompanied by a fee of twenty rupees to be paid in cash against receipt.