Transmission of registers to Chief Elections Officer

(1) Every registering officer shall immediately after he has signed and certified the said register of electors transmit it to the Chief Elections Officer who shall upon the receipt of the register countersign and date it and shall cause copy of the same to be published. (2) The register so dated, signed, and published shall, subject to the determination of any pending appeal, form the Register of Alien Electors for Belize City and shall remain in force until a new register is published as herein provided and it shall remain in the custody of the Chief Elections Officer. (3) A copy of any register so published, or any document purporting to be a register and purporting to be signed by the Chief Elections Officer as being correct shall on production be admitted as evidence of the existence and the contents of any register in all courts. (4) The aliens entitled to vote at the election of the Council shall be those persons whose names appear on the register of alien electors for Belize City. (5) Where the name of an alien person, who has been duly registered and in respect of whom a registration record card has 32 Belize City Council been completed, under these Regulations, does not appear on the list published under paragraph (1), such person shall nevertheless, upon production by him of his identification card, be permitted to vote in the polling area in which he would have been entitled to vote, provided that the presiding officer shall maintain a list of the names and registration numbers of the electors thus permitted to vote and of the number of the ballot paper issued to each of them. (6) No right of voting at any election shall be affected by any appeal against the exercise of that right pending at the time of issuing the Order directing an election to be held but every person who could otherwise vote may exercise the right of voting at the election as effectually and every vote tendered thereat shall be as good as if no appeal were pending and the subsequent decision of that appeal shall not in any way alter or affect the poll taken at the election nor the return made thereat by the returning officer. card.