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Section 12F: Correction of electoral roll

Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 2 of 1916

[ 12-F. (1) Where the Electoral Registration Officer is satisfied, after making such enquiry as he thinks fit, whether on an application made to him or on his own motion, that nay entry in the electoral roll should be corrected or deleted or that the name of any person entitled to be registered should be added in the electoral roll, he shall subject to the provisions of this act and the rules or orders made thereunder, delete or correct or add the entry, as the case may be :

Provided that no such deletion or correction or addition shall be made after the last date for making nomination for an election in the ward and before the completion of such election :

Provided further that no deletion or correction affecting the interest of any person adversely shall be made without giving him reasonable opportunity of being heard in regard of the action proposed to be taken in relation to him.

(2) An appeal shall lie within such time and manner and to such officer or authority as may be prescribed by rules against any order of the Electoral Registration Officer in regard to the inclusion, deletion or correction of a name in the electoral roll. ]

Where this provision sits

ActUttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916
Section12F
Marginal noteCorrection of electoral roll
JurisdictionState of Uttar Pradesh
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. Subs. by sec. 44 of U. P. Act no. 26 of 1995.

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