South Africa

Voter Registration Regulations (1998, last amended 2013)

Updated: June 2015

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Regulation 2, subregulation 2 states:

A person who applies for registration as a voter must complete an application form similar to Appendix 1 and (b) a person in the Republic who is by reason of physical disability unable to travel to a place so identified, may, by means of an application made on a form similar to Appendix 2, apply to the municipal electoral officer to be visited by a registration officer to whom he or she may then in person submit the application form for registration as a voter and his or her identity document.

 

Regulation 3 states:

A registered voter or a person who has applied for registration as a voter and whose name or ordinary place of residence has changed, and who must apply to have that change recorded in the voters’ roll or application form, must do so by completing an application form similar to Appendix 1 and (c) if he or she is, because of a physical disability, unable to travel to such an office, causing the application form to be submitted to an official at the office of a municipal electoral officer by someone else who must, when doing so, submit his or her own identity document to the official.

 

Regulation 4 states:

A registered voter who wishes to apply for deregistration as a voter, must do so by completing a form similar to Appendix 6 and- 

  • (a)  submitting it, together with his or her identity document, in person to an official at an office of a municipal electoral office; or
  • (b)  if he or she is, because of a physical disability, unable to travel to such an office, causing the application form to be submitted to an official at the office of a municipal electoral officer by someone else who must, when doing so, submit his or her own identity document to the official…

 

Excerpts from Voter Registration Regulations (1998, last amended 2013)

 


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Regulation 2, subregulation 2 states:

A person who applies for registration as a voter must complete an application form similar to Appendix 1 and (b) a person in the Republic who is by reason of physical disability unable to travel to a place so identified, may, by means of an application made on a form similar to Appendix 2, apply to the municipal electoral officer to be visited by a registration officer to whom he or she may then in person submit the application form for registration as a voter and his or her identity document.

 

Regulation 3 states:

A registered voter or a person who has applied for registration as a voter and whose name or ordinary place of residence has changed, and who must apply to have that change recorded in the voters’ roll or application form, must do so by completing an application form similar to Appendix 1 and (c) if he or she is, because of a physical disability, unable to travel to such an office, causing the application form to be submitted to an official at the office of a municipal electoral officer by someone else who must, when doing so, submit his or her own identity document to the official.

 

Regulation 4 states:

A registered voter who wishes to apply for deregistration as a voter, must do so by completing a form similar to Appendix 6 and- 

  • (a) submitting it, together with his or her identity document, in person to an official at an office of a municipal electoral office; or
  • (b)  if he or she is, because of a physical disability, unable to travel to such an office, causing the application form to be submitted to an official at the office of a municipal electoral officer by someone else who must, when doing so, submit his or her own identity document to the official…

 

Excerpts from Voter Registration Regulations (1998, last amended 2013)