(1) For each constituency of the Board within his district, the Collector shall cause to be prepared and kept a list of the persons qualified to vote in such constituency.
(2) The list of voters first prepared under this Act shall come into force immediately upon its final publication in accordance with the rules made under this Act and shall remain in force until the 30th day of September next, and every list of voters subsequently prepared under this Act shall come into force on the 1st day of October of the year for which the list is being prepared and shall remain in force until the 30th day of September next following.
(3) If for any reason the list of voters for any constituency is in any year not finally published in the prescribed manner before the 1st day of October, then, until the day on which it is so published, the list of voters which was in force immediately before the said 1st day of October shall continue in force as the list of voters for that constituency.
(4) A person shall not be entitled to vote at an election unless he is enrolled in the list of voters at the time in operation for the constituency for which the election is held.
10. If a person possesses qualifications to vote in more than one constituency, he shall within a prescribed time declare the constituency in which he proposes to vote and in the event of his failure to make such declaration within the Preparation of list of voters and period of operation of the list.
Effect of possessing qualification in more than one constituency.
12 [Act No.I of 1956] prescribed time, he shall be entitled to vote only in anyone of the constituencies.