Elections Regulations

(1) The Minister may make regulations– (a) to provide for the registration of electors; (b) to provide for the holding of elections and by- elections of members of the Council; (c) to provide for the conduct of elections of members of the Council; (d) to prohibit any act or matter which in his opinion is not conducive to the maintenance of order on polling day; (e) to declare any act committed in the course of any campaign for election or at an election, an election offence; (f) to declare the grounds upon which an election may be challenged and the persons who may challenge an election; (g) to declare the grounds upon which an election may be avoided and the procedure for challenging an election; (h) to provide for the trial of election petitions and matters connected therewith including the deposit of security and the award of costs; (i) to prescribe the form of the ballot papers and sample ballot papers; (j) to provide for the custody and disposal of ballot papers; (k) to prescribe the method of marking votes at 17 (l) to provide for penalties for the breach of any regulation; and (m) to prescribe for all such other matters as may be necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this Act. (2) Contraventions of any regulations made under sub- section (1) may be declared by the Minister to be illegal practices, and provisions may be made in the said regulations for the punishment on summary conviction, of persons committing or aiding, abetting, inciting, taking part or attempting to take part in the commission of such illegal practices, by– (a) a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars; and (b) disqualification from voting at any election under this Act, the Town Councils Act, the Representation of the People Act, and from being elected or appointed, as the case may be, as a member of a City Council, Town Council, Village Council or of the National Assembly, for a period of three years from the date of his conviction. CAP. 87. CAP. 9. (3) Regulations made by the Minister under this section shall be subject to negative resolution of the House of Representatives.