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Section 61: Special procedure for preventing personation of electors.

The Representation of the People Act, 1951Central Act · Act 43 of 1951

[61. Special procedure for preventing personation of electors.--With a view to preventing personation of electors provision may be made by rules made under this Act:

(a) for the marking with indelible ink of the thumb or any other finger of every elector who applies for a ballot paper or ballot papers for the purpose of voting at a polling station before delivery of such paper or papers to him;

(b) for the production before the presiding officer or a polling officer of a polling station by every such elector as aforesaid of identity card before the delivery of a ballot paper or ballot papers to him if under rules made in that behalf under the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), electors of the constituency in which the polling station is situated have been supplied with identity cards with or without their respecting photographs attached thereto; and

(c) for prohibiting the delivery of any ballot paper to any person for voting at a polling station if at the time such person applies for such paper he has already such a mark on his thumb or any other finger or does not produce on demand his identity card before the presiding officer or a polling officer of the polling station].

Where this provision sits

ActThe Representation of the People Act, 1951
Section61
Marginal noteSpecial procedure for preventing personation of electors.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act 58 of 1958. . Subs. by Act 58 of 1958, s. 25, for "section 61" (w.e.f. 30-12-1958).

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